A lyrical retelling of the Irish legend of The Children if Lir. The story deals with desire, the desires that a woman has the the brutality that comes when there are unmet desires. The story follows Aife, the middle sister of a family who is then traded in place of her dead sister to the husband. She has to take care of her older sister’s children. The marriage isn’t what she had imagined or wanted. Her husband treats her like a nuisance and in turn her anger and resentment are lashed out onto his children. She turns the four children into swans for 900 years and her own punishment for doing so is being unable to connect to anyone from her past life. She slowly begins to developed an affection towards the swans but this is also a story about men who toy with women and the bonds of sisterhood and children who can forgive. This is a story about a woman who has made a mistake but in turn is trying to fix them and to make things right. The illustrations in the story were stunning and the forgiveness was a beautiful aspect of the story.

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