http://speculiction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/review-of-spin-by-nina-allan.html ( )

An extremely well done modern retelling of the myth of Arachne, set in a vaguely alternate version of modern-day Greece. The protagonist is a woman whose gift for weaving may (or may not) be a gift of prophecy from the gods, and the novella follows her attempts to understand her talents and her place. ( )

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2269173.html

I was hooked by Spin from practically the first page: our heroine, Layla, follows but does not completely recapitulate the story of Arachne across a recovering, slightly alternate-history but still contemporary Greece. Tremendously well realised. ( )