Child of the Phoenix
Born in a burning castle in 1218, Princess Eleyne is brought up to support the Celtic cause against the English. She is taught to worship the old gods and to "scry" into the future and the past. Eleyne's second sight, however, involves her in the destinies of England, Scotland and Wales.
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Born in a burning castle in 1218, Princess Eleyne is brought up to support the Celtic cause against the English. She is taught to worship the old gods and to "scry" into the future and the past. Eleyne's second sight, however, involves her in the destinies of England, Scotland and Wales.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780006472643 (0006472648)
Publish date: November 11th 1996
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 1086
Edition language: English
Bought this from a secondhand bookstore a couple of years ago.Took me quite some time to finish the whole thing...I kind of liked it.
Awesome piece of Fiction! And fiction it is, based upon historical characters and NOT historical fiction. The main character, Elyne, is (according to the author's notes at the end) a composite of two characters, one of them being Ellen, the daughter of Llewellyn the Great and Joanna. I admit to bein...