| THE CROWTHISTLE CHRONICLES... Book #1 The Iron Tree |
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'If Tolkien wrote romance, the result might be something like the first volume of Australian author Dart-Thornton's new fantasy trilogy.'
- Publishers Weekly
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"Endowing her characters with courtly yet bucolic diction, almost Elizabethan, and casting her narrative in clean yet poetic prose, Dart-Thornton conjures up her world of Tir and its rituals and beliefs in the luminous yet hard-edged manner of Jack Vance or Mary Gentle."
--The Washington Post on The Iron Tree
* In 'The Iron Tree', Cecilia Dart-Thornton draws on an impressively wide range of influences from fairytale and folklore, including folk tales from Yorkshire, Lancashire, Ireland and the Fens, as well as a smattering of Norse legend.
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| "Dart-Thornton has crafted an impressive start to an epic journey down the corridors of myth and legend"--Romantic Times BookClub Magazine on The Iron Tree |
Cover blurb from the English language editions:
'Jarred is a young boy who has grown up among his mother's peaceful desert people. While Jarred loves his mother, he longs to know the history of his father, a journeyman who left years earlier, promising to return for his wife and infant son. A broken promise but a token left behind--an amulet for Jarred that he has worn always. Some say it brings more than a bit of good luck his way, for no harm has ever befallen the boy.
When Jarred comes to manhood, he decides to journey into the world to seek his fortune and perhaps along the way find news of his father. In his travels he will come to a place so unlike his own as to boggle his mind--a place of immense tracts of waterways and marshes, where the very air seems to teem with magic and a people surrounded by creatures fey and not, with enough strange customs and superstitions to make his head swirl.
And to the beautiful Lilith, a woman who will haunt his dreams and ultimately steal his heart...who perhaps can provide a key to his heritage. |
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