She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. Harrow, author of A Spindle Splintered A Shelf Awareness Best of the Year pick! A Vulture Best Fantasy of the Year pick! She left all she knew to find who she could be.
Its a new story with very old bones, a strange place that feels like home. Maria Dahvana Headley, author of Beowulf: A New Translation If Le Guin wrote a Camelot story, I imagine it would feel like Spear: humane, intelligent, and deeply beautiful. The New York Times Book Review Spectacular-Ive been waiting years for this book to exist. Nebula and Lambda Award-winning author Nicola Griffith returns with Spear, a glorious queer retelling of Arthurian legend, full of dazzling magic and intoxicating adventure- Book Synopsis A pleasure to follow a lovely flexing of Griffiths strengths in short form. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court. About the Book A spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name.
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