![]() ![]() Walsh’s debut novel is a beguiling historical fantasy that makes excellent and unique use of faerie folklore to produce a story that goes beyond the power struggle of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, which are all too common with this subject matter. ![]() ![]() Soon William and Walter find themselves the subject of a great deal of interest – interest that could threaten their lives. While recuperating, Walter reveals that he knows a secret about Crowfield and the curse that’s said to exist in nearby woods – a secret that becomes difficult to keep secret when the Abbey receives two guests – Jacobus Bone and his mysterious servant, Shadlok – who seem intent on solving the mystery of the curse for themselves. The hob’s leg is badly injured and so Will takes him to his friend, Brother Snail, a herbalist in the abbey and who agrees to look after the hob (now nicknamed Walter) until he’s healed. While collecting firewood in the nearby woods, he finds a hob (a kind of faerie) caught in a trap and frees him. It’s 1347 and William is an orphan boy who lives in Crowfield Abbey and works for the monks. Hidden in the dusk, someone else is watching. Somewhere in the forest, behind the abbey where he lives, is a grave.Īnd beneath the snow lies something he thought could never die.īut Will is not alone in knowing the truth about the Crowfield Curse. ![]()
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