5/24/2023 0 Comments Sorcha sevenwaters![]() ![]() ![]() Sorcha’s only hope of breaking this spell is a cruel task set by the fair folk, to spin, weave and sew six shirts from the nettle like starwort whose barbed fibres cause agonising pain at the merest touch, without uttering a sound. Yet, there are worse threats than the Britains, for when Lord Colum unexpectedly marries again, his new wife the enchantress Lady Oonagh, wastes no time in beginning her campaign of malice and magic against his children, finishing by transforming Sorcha’s six brothers into swans. ![]() With her mother dying at Sorcha’s birth, and the distant lord Colum throwing all of his efforts into war against the invading Britains, Sorcha has been raised by her brothers, the seven of them forming a single whole, like the seven streams which give the holding its name. Youngest child of Lord Colum of Seven Waters a small holding in post-Roman Éire (Ireland). I was so obviously distracted, I wasn’t really in a state to write a review, which, given how good Daughter of the Forest is, was a bit of a shame, and something I am now going to set right. Indeed, I first read it in 2015, just a few days before flying to America to spend Christmas with her family where I got engaged. Like many books I’ve read, Daughter of the Forest was a recommendation from my lady. ![]()
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