A powerful motive for my writing is curiosity: the incomplete fragment, the action which demands explanation, the “what if?” To discover, in adulthood, fresh light on something I thought I knew makes me want to detain the wedding-guests on the doorstep and demand that they listen to my story.Ī picture book shared with my small daughter opened my eyes to Morgan. The heritage industry of Cornwall celebrates Arthur and Merlin, not Morgan.įor me, early ignorance is creative. Interestingly, neither of these sources led me to the subject of this study: Morgan le Fay. In adolescence, I was enchanted by the Idylls of the King and the ruins of Tintagel Castle. I recognise two well-springs for my Arthurian fiction: poetry and place.
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