Ragnarok

In the footsteps of Margaret Atwood's bestselling Penelopiad comes an intensely autobiographical and timely tale from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children's Book.
 
Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so A.S. Byatt now reinvents it in all its intensity and glory.
 
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…