The Long Woman

An antiquarian's widow discovers her husband's lost journals and sets out on a journey of remembrance across 1920s England and France, retracing his steps in search of healing and independence. Along alignments of place and memory she meets mystic Dion Fortune, ley-line pioneer Alfred Watkins, and a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle obsessed with the Cottingley Fairies. From Glastonbury to Carnac, she visits the ancient sites that obsessed her husband and, tested by both earthly and unearthly forces, she discovers a power within herself. 'The Long Woman is a tender yet intimate journey of personal discovery, which the writer walks with his heroine, and any reader who would travel with them ... A beautiful book, filled with the quiet of dawn, and the first cool breaths of new life, it reveals how the poignancy of real humanity is ever sprinkled with magic.' Emma Restall Orr 'I must say that I think this is a very good book ... evocative and emotionally intense.' R. J. Stewart 'Kevan Manwaring writes in the bardic tradition of English prose, one which honours the vision of our landscape as sacred ground and knows that our lives and history are at their most intense when lived in close relation to its claims on the soul.' Lindsay Clarke


Genre: Literary Fiction