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Six Novels
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Dee Morrison Meaney
I have tried to write novels like the ones I enjoy reading--with characters I can love and treasure, carrying them around in my head for days and weeks, sometimes even longer. Each of these novels will take you, not into a fantasy world, but to an early medieval one where, for a little while, you can forget the grit of the one we live in today. dmm
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The Healer--Branwen's Grandmother's Story
These eight pages fill in the story of Branwen's grandmother, referred to but never explained in the trilogy.
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An Unkindness of Ravens
Hers was the inheritance of a lineage that stretched thousands of years back in time to the women who raised the first circles at Stonehenge, women who laid their dead in womb-shaped barrow graves. She was the last of those women, bound up in love of a great Viking, embroiled in war and intrigue until, in her old age, her world came to a bloody end at the Battle of Hastings. The historical characters in this first book of a trilogy, set in 11th century England, include Ethelred the Unraed, Edmund Ironsides, Cnut the Great, but at its heart are two less celebrated people caught in the era's turbulent crosswinds--the Viking, Thorkell the Tall, and the Earl of Wessex' sister, Branwen.
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A Deceit of Lapwings
This is the second book of the Branwen trilogy. The Vikings have claimed control of the land and Branwen is free at last to marry her Viking lord. But, if she becomes Thorkell's wife, she must reject her heritage, give up her powers. Then, as an ordinary woman, she is without protection against those who hate her--including the king Thorkell serves.
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An Exaltation of Larks
This is the third book of the Branwen trilogy. Branwen is an old lady. Filled with memories of two men she loved, a brother whose son was now king, the web of her life is thinning. Time and place seem to come out of joint as she makes her way from Sherborne to Little Hemmingfold Farm and one last battle.
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Iseult
In all the lands of Arthur's Britain no knight could outshine Tristan of Lyonnesse. Fierce in battle, gentle on the strings of a harp, unequaled in the hunt, notorious in Tintagel's bedrooms, he seemed bound for a glorious destiny--and found it in the court of his uncle, King Mark, who named him heir to the throne of Cornwall.
For Mark, Tristan risked his life in blood combat with the dread Morholt. For Mark, Tristan journeyed to the sorcery-ridden land of Ireland to kill a dragon and win Mark a bride. Tristan loved his king but he loved his king's wife more.
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Daughter of the High King
On the eve of her marriage to the famous warrior, Fionn mac Cumhail, young and self-willed Grainne, daughter of Cormac, high king of Ireland, places a druidical injunction on the young warrior, Diarmuid, forcing him to flee from Tara with her, setting into motion a series of events which only reach their conclusion years later. Chased westward across Ireland and into the rocky crags of Kerry, peace with Fionn is eventually arranged. Forgiveness is not.
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A BRIEF BIO
Dee Morrison Meaney is a writer interested in imagining
ways to narrow the interstices between religion and mythology as well as between
history and fantasy.
A wife, mother and grandmother, a gardener, a sometime
herbalist, and a reader, she manages to keep busy.
Her email address is
dmm6@comcast.net
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