{"title":"Juliet Marillier","description":"JULIET MARILLIER achieved international recognition with the publication of the first two award-winning novels in the Sevenwaters Trilogy, a historical fantasy set in Ireland and Britain in the ninth century, and loosely based on the fairy tale \"The Six Swans\". Her other historical fantasy series include the Viking-inspired Light Isles duology and the Bridei Chronicles set in north Britain in the time of the Picts.","products":[{"product_id":"daughter-of-the-forest-book-one-of-the-sevenwaters-trilogy-paperback","title":"Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuliet Marillier brings us a beautifully re-imagined version of the Six Swans myth in \u003ci\u003eDaughter of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. 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