Two brothers compete for the same woman, but only one is alive. Maud Kerne is faced with the ultimate choice. Yet she herself is the key that will unlock the greatest of mysteries: is there life after death? Is there love?
An antiquarian's widow discovers her husband's lost journals and sets out on a journey of remembrance across 1920s England and France, retracing his steps in search of healing and independance. Along alignments of place and memory she meets mystic Dione Fortune, leyline pioneer Alfred Watkins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle obsessed with the Cottingley Fairies.
The Long Woman is an exploration of the sacred landscapes of the past and the secret landscapes of the soul.