Book launch: Queen Mab

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A riveting portrait of madness, motherhood, the myths that haunt us and the families who keep us tethered, Emily McBride’s Queen Mab asks us to reconsider what is real and how we might see a truer picture of ourselves through the darkness.

Madeleine is young for motherhood, a promising grad student in Victorian and Modernist literature, twenty-three and not long married. But when baby Maud comes into the world, something seems amiss. The child never stops crying. Her eyes glint with some kind of ancient mischief. Could Maud be a fairy child, swapped when Madeleine wasn’t paying attention? While the world around them continues in its humdrum ease, Madeleine is interrupted by visions, panicked at her lack of maternal feelings and shut out from her old life. She frantically searches for answers, but the old stories end in sorrow and bloodshed. And fairies do more than…