Queen of the Summer Country

By: Rosalind Miles

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Paperback | 9 June 1999

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As the young Guenevere comes to terms with the violent death of her mother, she faces the prospect of becoming Queen of the Summer Country with trepidation, but also with a fierce determination.

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Rosalind Miles's new version of the much-worked-over saga of King Arthur and his Round Table Knights adds a new layer to the old myths. Queen of the Summer Country, for the first time, brings Guenevere centre-stage as a matriarchal queen in her own right. It tells of the clash of theologies: the old pagan religion and the new Christian faith; war with the Saxons and usurping tribes; the flawed and guilty love of Lancelot and Guenevere; and their desperate attempts to reconcile their love with their loyalty to the King - attempts destined to end in tragedy and death for an innocent girl. The Knight of the Sacred Lake deepens and intensifies the conflict between the two religions - one of love and freedom, the other of pain and repression - and, even more, the hostility between Arthur and his sinister half-sister Morgan le Fay by whom he has a son, Mordred. Determined to stamp out the feminist rule as exemplified by Guenevere the Christian Church, confident in the belief that Right and God are on their side, demands the surrender of the old religion's treasure: The Sacred Hallows, which include the Holy Grail - while Morgan and the wizard Merlin are each relentlessly plotting, one to end the rule of the House of Pendragon, the other to save it. A fantastical tour de force and symbols and magic, blood-feuds and revenge, that stretches from France to the Orkney Islands, north of Scotland. Full of colour, glamour and lush writing. Part Three: The Child of the Holy Grail, is still to come. (Kirkus UK)

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