It starts with twin girls, or does it start earlier than that? When Cador, then a knight, slays a Dragon and gets mortally injured he falls in love with the woman bringing him back to health. He pulled out his wool cap and snugged it over his ears.’ Life is nothing like a story. “But it could be a wonderful story…’ ‘Stories are wonderful because they aren’t real.’ Alfred retorted. I’m not usually the biggest fan of historical fiction, but Silence’s story is one I never knew I needed. I became the Minstrel we meet in the first chapter, engrossed to the point of ignoring my body’s need for sleep and food and drink. The Story of Silence weaves together the original 13th Century poem with the authors additional insights to make a tale that, though lengthy and of a heavy nature, had me enraptured from the first line and flying through the chapters needing to follow Silence’s story. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s world – sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale. What follows is a tale of knights and dragons, of bards, legends and dashing strangers with hidden secrets. With dreams of knighthood and a lonely heart to answer, Silence sets out to define themselves. Silence must find their own place in a medieval world that is determined to place the many restrictions of gender and class upon them. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cador – Merlin-enchanted fighter of dragons and Earl of Cornwall – he secreted her away: to be raised a boy so that the family land and honour would remain intact. There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit.
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