RUNEMARKS by JOANNE HARRIS
Doubleday hardback, 500pp, £14.99

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Reviewed by Iain Emsley


Joanne Harris’s d?©but children’s novel is a fantastic romp which is eminently readable. Her adult fiction flirts with the fantastic, delivering it gently, while Runemarks is a retelling of Norse myths which also sets up a mythical - almost ‘asterisk fantastic’ ‚Äì world within which she finds some very human characters.

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