The Wild Swans is a beautiful and lyrical extended version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, and a companion piece to Morris's stunning East of the Sun, West of the Moon, complete with delicate watercolour paintings throughout.A girl loses her brothers when they are turned into swans by her wicked stepmother. She has a task, to turn them back into boys again. But the task is complicated. She must pick nettles with her bare hands, stamp on them to make yarn and spin and knit the yarn into shirts for each of the eleven brothers. And all the while she knits she cannot speak, for if she does, even so much as a whisper, it will be like a knife in the heart of each swan boy.And so she knits, silent. And where there is silence people will put words.This is a book about communication, how to listen, about how we hear what we wish to hear.
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