SOLVED. Children's book, parts of a game on Arthurian legend (cards, board, pawns) are found, specifically remember card on Galahad [s]

[Hop]

I'm looking for a children's book I read at the end of the 1980s/beginning of 1990s but it might have been old by then. I think it is British. I remember it is about children (they might have been away at school some parts of the book) that find elements of a board game, cards, playing board, pawns etc. that is based on the Arthurian legends. I remember that a card on Galahad was particularly important. I don't remember much about the bigger plot, but I think the game used to belong to a person from the past and that finding out about that person might have been the actual point of the book.

[Kris]

Hop, are there fantasy elements such as travelling back to Arthurian times?

It's a novel and not a puzzle/game book, right?

[Hop]

Thank you for your question! It is a novel. I'm not quite sure about going back in time, it's possible but I don't have any clear memories of it.

[Stephanie]

Is it Albion's Dream? I think I posted a nearly identical question and that was the answer (I found it on Amazon and reread it).

[Kris]

Ah, good find, Stephanie! One reviewer on Amazon.co.uk says, "Roger Norman's Albion's Dream concerns 12-year-old Edward, who discovers a strange, home-made board game in his uncle's farmhouse. As he begins to play, he realises that the game constitutes both a dark family legacy, and a channel for powerful and primeval magical forces. He discovers that the archetypal figures depicted on the game's cards - Puck, Galahad, Pellinore, the Friendly Hangman, even Death - correspond to people in his family, in the boarding school he reluctantly attends, and people he meets in the countryside around his Dorset home."

[Hop]

Yes! You're my hero, thank you so much!