The Knowing
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Sell my copyAuthor: Kevan Manwaring
Title: The Knowing
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 582
Release Date: 2026-04-30
Details: Janey McEttrick is a Scottish-American musician descended from a long line of female singers. She lives near Asheville, North Carolina, where she plays in a jobbing rock band, and works part-time at a vintage record store. Thirty-something and spinning wheels she seems doomed to smoke and drink herself into an early grave, until one day she receives a mysterious journal - apparently from a long-lost Scottish ancestor, the Reverend Robert Kirk, a 17th Century minister obsessed with Fairy Lore. Assailed by supernatural forces, she is forced to act - to journey to Scotland to lay to rest the ghost of Kirk and to accept the double-edged gift she has inherited, the gift of Second Sight: the Knowing.
"A remarkable book about the perils of faery, the even greater perils of possessing the Second Sight - the Knowing of the title - and a more than surface account of the lore of the faery themselves. Kevan Manwaring is a skilful storyteller and his knowledge of the subject goes deep. This is no light heated, twee faerytale - as so many books about the subject prove to be - but a serious excursion into the Otherworld. It's fast paced, inventive enough to hold the attention, and has a strong, believable set of characters - especially the heroine, who walks off the page again and again. For all those fascinated by faery, by the ancient and mysterious world of the Celts - this is for you. "
John Matthews: author Fairylands and The Secret Life of Elves and Fairies.
EAN: 9781919167831
Languages: English
