Chorus: A Novel Fiction Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie

Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and Jackie Morris’s watercolour illustrations are musical and magical: these are summoning spells

Stunning full-page images bring each subject to life

Many consider his talent a gift

She’s a fighter who discovered the hard way that nobody gives up power willingly

downstairs supper and tea

Chorus: A Novel Fiction Robert Macfarlane’s spell-poems and JackieFor readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Lombardo, Chorus shepherds seven siblings through two life altering eventstheir mothers untimely death, and a shocking teenage pregnancythat ultimately follow them through their lives as individuals and as a family. The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays