Metro Winds
First published: 2012
An engrossing collection of stories from one of Australia’s most loved fantasy writers, and creator of the acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles.
A girl is sent across the world to discover her destiny in the dark tunnels of the Metro. Another seeks a lost sister in a park where winter lasts forever. A young man fulfils a dying wish. A mother works magic to summon a true princess for her son. A man seeks an ending to his story. An old man goes in search of his shadow.
“This is a world of desire and transformation, the real and the not real, from the queen of modern fantasy.” – Reading Journal
Awards for Metro Winds
- 2012: Shortlisted, Aurealis Awards
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An Excerpt from Metro Winds
So there was a girl. Young but not too young. A face as unformed as an egg, so that one could not tell if she would turn out to be fair or astonishingly ugly. She was to be sent to a city in another land by a mother and father in the midst of a divorce. The one thing they could agree upon was that the girl should not be...