Ragnarok

This little book is a beautiful little sweep straight through the center of the most prominent Nordic myths, as interpreted by Byatt's child-self. The analogies to WWII England and the Nazis and climate change and the determination of a child to give up naïveté and innocence are there, but subtle. It's a book whose levels can be picked apart and appreciated separately, and to which I feel a strong connection. I didn't live through a wartime evacuation, but I did live through a difficult childhood by burying myself within the heavy pages of books and myths. I can relate.