Raven Girl is a children's book written by Audrey Niffenegger about a postman who falls in love with a raven. The Royal Ballet in London performed the story in 2013, and oh how we would have loved to have seen it! A dark fairytale about a raven and the wonders of the world? Check! Ballet? Check!
Once there was a Postman who fell in love with a Raven.
So begins the tale of a postman who encounters a fledgling raven while on the edge of his route and decides to bring her home. The unlikely couple falls in love and conceives a child―an extraordinary raven girl trapped in a human body.
Excerpt from Raven Girl
Sarah Lamb on Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl (The Royal Ballet)
We hope this is staged again one day when we can go out into the world and have the joy of seeing it.
