Folk
FolkZoe Gilbert

Folk (2018)

Zoe Gilbert

Creators: Mixed
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9781408884393

Genres: fantasy

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folk was an interlinked short story collection in which in each story you followed a different member of this community and it was very inspired by british folklore it's a very magical but lots of elements of i guess like haunting or violent stuff and yeah i thought she wrote beautifully but i didn't think there was much of a narrative arc

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