Descriere
Here is the tragic tale of the rise and fall of Camelot - but seen through the eyes of Camelot's women: The devout Gwenhwyfar, Arthur's Queen; Vivane, High priestess of Avalon and the Lady of the Lake; above all, Morgaine, possessor of the sight, the wise, the wise-woman fated to bring ruin on them all...
'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.
'The best retelling of the Arthurian saga I have ever read. Completely compelling' Isaac Asimov
'Vastly ambitious and stunningly successful...masterfully plotted and beautifully written' Publishers Weekly
