SNOW OR ASHES

Lucy Fisher

RIGHTS AVAILABLE: World English, Translation, Film/TV, and all rights controlled by the bks Agency

Jane wants to be left alone with her pills. She wants to divorce Ben, but an accident left him in a coma and she needs him to be awake enough for it to really hurt. She wants people to stop trying to help her, or asking her for help. But they keep helping, or asking.

Linnet wants to know where she is and why. She wants to feel less alone and lost. But she's been told that everything in this unfamiliar world has rules, and a price, even answers. She can't ask Winter, because he's just a good-looking dickhead. She can't ask Finn, because he's just doing his job. The fox seems strange enough to know, but it can’t talk.

Queen Maeve wants her husband dead, and her lost child returned. She has rid herself of love, and remorse, and need, to achieve these things, and Jane is an important piece in her game, as are Linnet and her companions. It should be an easy win, but humans are unpredictable and her debt to Hell grows bigger every day. 

A high concept, genre bending reading group super-debut, SNOW OR ASHES has its (twisted) roots in fairy tales and mythology while being fully contemporary in its preoccupations with female relationships, love and duty, trauma and forgiveness. 

Lucy Fisher is 50% fiction and crisps, 50% bookseller. She lives and works in West London. She has an extensive range of interests, most of which can be pursued from the sofa. She has two jobs, one husband, one cat, also a spectacularly comfortable sofa.