Regan, a chieftain’s daughter in Ireland’s ancient past, has enjoyed a carefree childhood, secure in the love of her clan. But there is something in her history of which she is unaware — a sacred promise placed upon her at her birth.
When Regan discovers that her destiny is to be sent away to live with the Druids, she is angry. When she learns it is not just any group of druids, but the Lord Druid of the greatest faery shee in the whole land, she is frightened as well. This is a place spoken of in hushed voices. A place of mystery. A place of peril. A place of magic. There is only one way to escape her fate — to pass through the terrifying Ordeal of the Rowan. Alone, she must journey to the Otherworlds, and face her deepest fears.
This is not just another book about goddesses. It is a book in which the goddesses themselves speak intimately to the reader.
Twelve British goddesses give personal accounts of their joy and pain, their trials and triumphs, and invite the reader to share their deepest thoughts and feelings as their tales unfold.
The book is divided into the three sections of Maiden, Mother, Crone, and is shaped as a progression from one to another. Thus the Wayward Maidens, so sure of themselves, their power and their choices, lead to the pain of the Mothers as they try to withstand the new patriarchal forces. These, in turn, are replaced by the Crones, who have come through the trials of the Mothers and regained their power and independence.
The ancient Bards encoded their knowledge of the natural world of animals and plants and the power to heal, order and judge into teasing riddles that were told or sung, not written down. They believed they had powers of divination, shape-changing and the ability to travel to the 'Otherworld'.
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.
When Isambard Kerne, Royal Flying Corps observer, goes missing in action in the opening battle of the First World War, he is transported into a nightmarish limbo - both imprisoned and released by his wife's grieving love. Separated from his biplane and pilot, Kerne awakes in an unknown mountainous land where he meets wild Merlin - who is trapped in the form of a falcon. The feathered magician becomes the airman's guide, leading him to the Chlak Folk who carve giants from the foothills of the dead.....
The past shall not rest, nor the dead stay in peace, in this gripping adventure from a magical storyteller.
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