Carol Ann Duffy: Frost Fair [2019] hardback Condition:New Blood of the Gods

Blood of the Gods

She's grown up preparing for the End of Days

And the longer he gets away with it

and the residents in The Avenue are no exception

Carol Ann Duffy: Frost Fair [2019] hardback Condition:New Blood of the GodsIt is a snowy London day in The Great Winter of 1683. We follow our bold narrator as she explores 'the town on the Thames', a thousand tents and dancing fires lit on the frozen water with jubilant residents and lively festive revelry. All is a fete upon the ice as she sees jugglers, dancing bears, palm readers and even a merry wedding. Her journey leads her to meet many new companions with whom to spend a starry night upon the river, where they sleep