Sally Magnusson: The Shapeshifter's Daughter

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Location: Christ Church Morningside, 6a Morningside Rd, EH10 4DD.

We're thrilled to welcome bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Sally Magnusson to Edinburgh, as she joins Eleanor Updale to discuss her brand new novel, The Shapeshifter's Daughter - the spellbinding feminist retelling of the Norse myth of Hel, the Goddess of the Underworld, set in the magical landscape of Orkney.

About the book:

Nothing, on earth or below it, freezes faster than the worthless heart.

Before she was a hideous monster, the queen of the underworld was simply Hel. But cast as a girl out of lofty Asgard, realm of the gods, by Odin the Allfather, Hel's fate as the terrible goddess of death is sealed. Half beauty, half crone, she has reigned for aeons in the starless darkness of Niflheim, grimly welcoming the most pitiful of death's travellers to her ice-locked prison. Until one day a memory…