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A Stone Woman (Storycuts)
  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128327
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 58

A Stone Woman (Storycuts)



A woman undergoes an extraordinary physical transformation after the death of her mother.

Following the death of her mother, an elderly woman begins to undergo a transfiguration. Her body grows flinty, toughens and crystallises. An Icelandic stonemason she meets in a graveyard becomes her sole confidant. As her inexorable metamorphosis continues, the stories he has to tell of his homeland and its legends begin to resonate.

Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of Stories.

  • Published: 17 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448128327
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 58

About the author

A S Byatt

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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