In so many ways this book is just a real hot mess. It’s 1100 pages long and it folds in so many different parts of British literature: westcountry life, small towns, the return of a kind of prodigal son, community gossip, intrigue, gossip, sex, affairs, Celtic mysticism, druidic shamanism, King Arthur legends, and the long pull of history. As an American, we’re often told and reminded of how relatively young our country is, and while this is true, that’s entirely built on a myth of […]