This is the legend of Arthur retold from the women's perspective.
Morgaine, while not a fairy, is a woman of power, whose
contribution to the rise and fall of Arthur is far more complex,
more personal, than tradition recalls. Guinevere is a committed
Christian, whose insistence on abandoning the old religion also
contributes to Arthur's fall. The roles of Lancelot and Merlin are
also somewhat recast, with neither emerging as good or bad, but
searingly human in their prides and fallibilities. There is
definitely magic in this story, not the sort that can be conjured
with a wand but that which requires study and passion and where
curses harm the curser as much as the cursed. And there is love of
such depth and majesty that other romantic figures pale beside it:
love that continues beyond death, that crosses boundaries of gender
and family; love of country, of God or the gods, companionable love
for fellow human beings. The range and breadth of the concepts in
this book make it truly great in any genre, but it is unarguably
one of the best fantasy books ever written. (Kirkus UK)
'In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen'
Morgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change.
Through the lives of pious Guinevere, ambitious Morgause, Priestess of Avalon Viviane and her successor as Lady of the Lake, Morgaine herself, this rich and haunting epic reveals a greater threat to the Old People than the Saxons. For the spread of patriarchal Roman ways and a narrow Christianity seem likely to drive the ancient worship of the Mother forever into the mists ...
Penguin also publish the other novels in the bestselling Avalon series: The Forests of Avalon and Lady of Avalon.
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