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2020 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee)
A contemporary tale of four fey sisters.
Bee: the practical one, the lynchpin; still living in the family home of Mooncote in Somerset, where she has met an unconventional boyfriend that not even her sisters are aware of.
Stella: a DJ currently hanging around the Med after completing a series of gigs in Ibiza, she has vowed never to return to Mooncote following a row with Bee, but that was then...
Serena: a single mother and fashion designer living in Notting Hill, increasingly uncertain of her relationship with long-term boyfriend Ben, a Camden-based rock singer and the son of a family friend.
Luna: the youngest, head-strong and free-spirited, a wanderer living out of a horse-drawn van while she follows the Gypsy Switch: the route of horse fairs that spans the length of the country.
The four Fallow sisters, scattered like the four winds but now drawn back together with the comet due, united in their desire to find their mother, Alys – a former Vogue cover model who disappeared a year ago . They have help, of course, from the star spirits and the no-longer-living, but such advice tends to be cryptic and is hardly the most dependable of guides.
A tale to reignite your sense of wonder; a story that reaches from present day London and rural Somerset to other places and other times...
“In Comet Weather, Liz Williams has crafted something marvellous. This is a book full of wonder, horror, love, heartbreak, strangeness, and a gorgeously evoked sense of time and place. Between one page and the next you'll be laughing out loud, then shivering to your bones.” – Alastair Reynolds.
“This quick-witted and intriguing contemporary fantasy is fresh and original, while also harking back to the mythology of the English landscape and the classic literature that has inspired. A many-faceted delight.” – Juliet E. McKenna
“From the domestic to the transcendent, this is a golden slice of British rural fantasy in the tradition of Diana Wynne Jones and Tanith Lee. I loved it.” – Paul Cornell
"The flawless writing, engaging characters and intriguing plot of Comet Weather make the novel a perfect pleasure to read. Think Gaiman: imagination enriched with history, culture, geography, astronomy and archaeology, and a dash of romance." – Aurealis
Genre: Horror
Bee: the practical one, the lynchpin; still living in the family home of Mooncote in Somerset, where she has met an unconventional boyfriend that not even her sisters are aware of.
Stella: a DJ currently hanging around the Med after completing a series of gigs in Ibiza, she has vowed never to return to Mooncote following a row with Bee, but that was then...
Serena: a single mother and fashion designer living in Notting Hill, increasingly uncertain of her relationship with long-term boyfriend Ben, a Camden-based rock singer and the son of a family friend.
Luna: the youngest, head-strong and free-spirited, a wanderer living out of a horse-drawn van while she follows the Gypsy Switch: the route of horse fairs that spans the length of the country.
The four Fallow sisters, scattered like the four winds but now drawn back together with the comet due, united in their desire to find their mother, Alys – a former Vogue cover model who disappeared a year ago . They have help, of course, from the star spirits and the no-longer-living, but such advice tends to be cryptic and is hardly the most dependable of guides.
A tale to reignite your sense of wonder; a story that reaches from present day London and rural Somerset to other places and other times...
“In Comet Weather, Liz Williams has crafted something marvellous. This is a book full of wonder, horror, love, heartbreak, strangeness, and a gorgeously evoked sense of time and place. Between one page and the next you'll be laughing out loud, then shivering to your bones.” – Alastair Reynolds.
“This quick-witted and intriguing contemporary fantasy is fresh and original, while also harking back to the mythology of the English landscape and the classic literature that has inspired. A many-faceted delight.” – Juliet E. McKenna
“From the domestic to the transcendent, this is a golden slice of British rural fantasy in the tradition of Diana Wynne Jones and Tanith Lee. I loved it.” – Paul Cornell
"The flawless writing, engaging characters and intriguing plot of Comet Weather make the novel a perfect pleasure to read. Think Gaiman: imagination enriched with history, culture, geography, astronomy and archaeology, and a dash of romance." – Aurealis
Genre: Horror
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