Alex and the Druids' Eclipse: A Cornish Tale - Hardcover

Griffin, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1480847046 ISBN 13: 9781480847040

Publisher: Archway Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

After witnessing a total solar eclipse high on the Cornish cliffs with his father, Jory, ten-year-old Alex Pitts tumbles from the familiar, safe world he knows into one filled with uncertainty and danger.

Summoned by the ancient druids to the time of Merlin and King Arthur, Alex is sent to recapture a magical cauldron. This journey takes him on a long and perilous quest to a lost island, and into a world of witches, giants, and age-old rituals that evolve into a living nightmare. His only comfort is the enduring love and relentless loyalty of a wolf.

Alex and the Druids' Eclipse throws open a portal to a time long past, to a land where lore and magic reigns.

About this title

From the Author:

It is undoubtedly Cornwall, that mystical peninsula situated on the south-west tip of the British Isles, that is and will always be the inspiration for my writing.Alex and the Druids' Eclipse was crafted from the myths and legends that are rooted in the layers of solid granite rock that form the geological substratum of the Duchy.  They have stories to be told, and every time I take a walk, through its green, leafy woodlands, along my favorite beach, or across the windswept moors, my imagination is brought alive and the magic flows.It was an overwhelming desire that my grandchildren know of their Cornish heritage and feel the tug of their own Cornish-Celtic roots that impelled me to write Alex and the Druids' Eclipse.   I wanted to share with them the myth, lore and legend that encompasses the peninsula by travelling with Alex through his long and arduous journey. To experience, through him, the spellbinding mysteries that lie deep within the boggy moorland pools, ooze from under every granite outcrop and cry out in the night from the unpredictable sea.

From the Back Cover:

The door creaked open, just a smidgeon, and intothe shaft of light was thrust a sliver of the old woman's face revealing onlyher hideous, crooked, hooked nose.Shadows encircled and hid her from full view, but through the murkinessof the interior Alex could just make out a pair of predatory eyes, as black andforbidding as the bottom of a disused mine shaft on a dark night, encased inthe folds of her dry, crusty, pockmarked skin. Suddenly, the door was flungwide open with such a force that Alex was sure it was going to hit the groundand turn to dust.  He leapt back andthrew his arms up in front of his face to avoid being hit by flying debris, butthe door remained on its great wooded hinges, creaking loudly as it swung backand forth in the rising wind.  Alexlowered his arms and forced himself to look towards the entrance of the hovel,and there he saw Tanguistl, her eyes crinkling, her thin cracked lips gaping,revealing the full repulsiveness of her toothless smile, as her expressiontwisted into one of complete and utter joy at the sight of Alex and Merlin. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1480847046
• ISBN 13: 9781480847040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278