Widdershins (novel)

Widdershins
First edition
AuthorCharles De Lint
Cover artistJohn Jude Palencar
LanguageEnglish
GenreUrban fantasy
PublisherTor Books
Publication date
16 May 2006
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages560
ISBN0-7653-1285-9

Widdershins is a 2006 urban fantasy novel by Canadian writer Charles De Lint, set in the Newford universe.[1] It continues the events of the 2001 novel The Onion Girl, where Jilly was left partially paralyzed and her relationship with Geordie unfulfilled. It also deals with a potential war between fairies and "cousins." Fairies, according to the novel, came to the Americas along with the European explorers. Cousins are the original inhabitants, who can take the form of specific animals depending on their bloodline.

According to De Lint in the introduction, Widdershins is the last novel he will write centering on Jilly Coppercorn, though he subsequently followed up the book with a prequel about Jilly's earlier days, Promises to Keep (2007).

  1. ^ "The fantasy world of Charles de Lint". The Ottawa Citizen. June 4, 2006. Retrieved 2013-05-09.