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This story is very loosely based on
Tam Lin
, which is itself mentioned a few times. A young man is captured by "the Lady" and her folk, and kept till All Hallow's Eve, when the fairies intend to make him pay his 'teind' - by draining him of his power and making him 'nothing'.
The really outstanding part of this novel is the protagonist Katherine (Kate) Sutton, a lady-in-waiting in Lady (soon-to-be-Queen) Elizabeth's court, who is sent to stay at the 'Perilous Gard' because of an error her bim ...more
The really outstanding part of this novel is the protagonist Katherine (Kate) Sutton, a lady-in-waiting in Lady (soon-to-be-Queen) Elizabeth's court, who is sent to stay at the 'Perilous Gard' because of an error her bim ...more
I read this book to the 11-year-old for our Age of Elizabeth world history lesson. It's well written, but the story not my cup of tea.
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