Book description
Years have passed since the Jarnish invasion, and Sulien ap Gwien
has worked tirelessly alongside her lord, King Urdo, to restore the
King's Peace to Tir Tanagiri. But the man Sulien believes to be the
greatest of his time is seen by others as a potential tyrant. Urdo's
vision of a nation of citizens bound by a single code of law is viewed
with increasing mistrust, and this soon gives way to civil war. Sulien
must take up arms again. But where once her enemies were barbarian
invaders, now they are former comrades and loved ones. As the conflict
tears her country and her family apart, Sulien must fight harder and
harder to hold onto Urdo's vision of the future. Praise for the
Trilogy'Walton writes with an authenticity that never loses heart, a
rare combination . . . She can dig down to a true vein of legend and
hammer out gold.' Robin Hobb'The people, the politics, the details of
warfare and daily life, all ring as true as the steel sword the
heroine wields so doughtily. This is much more than a retooling of the
Matter of Britain: it is a fully imagined, living, magical world.'
Delia Sherman'Beautiful and thought-provoking. Walton tells a story
set in a world and a history almost like ours, but different enough to
be in itself a kind of elvenland.' Poul Anderson'Head and shoulders
and sword-arm above most fantasy. Like a lost memoir from the Dark Age
of a subtly different history, tough and unsentimental and all the
more touching for that.' Ken MacLeod
