Name: Ragnarok
ISBN: 9781782117186

A. S. Byatt

As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this mesmerising tale - inspired by the myth of Ragnarok - is a landmark piece of storytelling from one of the world's truly great writers.

The End of the Gods

Ragnarok

Antonia Susan Byatt

As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods-- a book of ancient Norse myths-- and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.

Emmett

Byatt sounds beautifully eloquent even when using the simplest of words.

Presents a retelling of the Norse myth about the end of the world that follows the blitz-era evacuation of a young girl whose worldview is dramatically changed upon reading "Asgard and the Gods."

Ragnarok The End of the Gods