Author Robert Turner will be signing books in Basildon Ottakar'ss on the 12th August.
The author has created a world of believable characters and settings using a background of Saffron Walden in the year 1538 and the modern day environment of Cambridge.
He has successfully blended some of the actual historical events with his own imagery to convey a colourful time in history. The religion created in this novel is original and in keeping
with the religious turmoil of the time. It conveys the actual practices and beliefs of the common people. One imagines Robin Hood and others of his ilk to have said a passing prayer to
the goddess Ichmarr.
The narrator of the story, Merith, often tells the reader of her emotions and feelings she cannot express. She relates the bewilderment in being in such strange surroundings in the
present day and the inability to understand the English being spoken now; so different to the English she has spoken in the past. The narrator charts her progress her own abilities, in
her religion and the holy mission she embarks on to recover a holy text.
About the Author.
Robert Turner is a teacher of technology in a highly successful high school in Saffron Walden. He developed his interest in the medieval period through his role-playing in his youth and
in particular the character of Merith, which arose in these games to be fully fleshed out in this novel. He is currently developing cognitive creativity in his students within technology
and managing a highly creative team of teachers.