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Author | Charles De Lint |
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Cover artist | John Jude Palencar |
Language | English |
Genre | Urban fantasy |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Publication date | 16 May 2006 |
Publication place | Canada |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 560 |
ISBN | 0-7653-1285-9 |
Widdershins is a 2006 urban fantasy novel by Canadian writer Charles De Lint, set in the Newford universe.[1] It continues the events of the 2001 novel The Onion Girl, where Jilly was left partially paralyzed and her relationship with Geordie unfulfilled. It also deals with a potential war between fairies and "cousins." Fairies, according to the novel, came to the Americas along with the European explorers. Cousins are the original inhabitants, who can take the form of specific animals depending on their bloodline.
According to De Lint in the introduction, Widdershins is the last novel he will write centering on Jilly Coppercorn, though he subsequently followed up the book with a prequel about Jilly's earlier days, Promises to Keep (2007).