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Arthur The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley Holland |
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Arthur The Seeing Stone
‘This is astonishing . . . a book that lasts has to create a world so real that you can run your fingertips over its walls, feel its morning frost bite at your throat, and remember the people who lived there for a lifetime. Crossley—Holland has done it and I am so, so jealous.’ ANNE FINE, CHILDREN’S LAUREATE.
Set in the Welsh Marches in the year 1199, The Seeing Stone is a uniquely contemporary take on the Arthurian legends. It is an enthralling story of secrets and mysteries in the life of young Arthur de Caldicot, who discovers his namesake, the boy King Arthur, in his seeing stone. |
In a hundred short chapters that seem like snapshots of the past, The Seeing Stone brilliantly evokes the earthy,
uncomfortable reality of daily life in the Middle Ages, and of a whole community from Gatty the reeve’s daughter to Tanwen the chamber-servant, from Oliver the priest to Lady Alice, keeper of a terrible secret — facing the conflicts and uncertainties of a new century.
Seeing Stone is the first volume in the Arthur trilogy. |
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Format: PaperBack
Title: Arthur The Seeing Stone
ISBN/ Catalogue No: 0752844296
Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher: none
Date Published: none |
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