Despite some plot weaknesses and patches of graceless writing (and Kay's speech made more colloquial than Aherne's to underscore the time-gap), this reads and paces well. Melling's interpretation of Celtic themes is ingenious and inventive, and the device of restoring the De Danaan to their lost status as gods is magically imagined. Ultimately, their quest will redeem the ancestors and reconcile warring invaders and settlersmoral concerns that mirror modern ones. She and a De Danaan foundling, Aherne, are charged with finding the lost treasures of the De Danaans.
Following anonymous clues and increasingly strong dream-visions, modern-day Kay travels to Ireland and enters the Bronze-Age. The Golden Book of Faerie, 2004 omnibus edition (4 vols.Grade 6-8 A time-fantasy and coming-of-age romance in which orphan Kay seeks her origins and finds her ancestors in a supernatural past.The Chronicles of Faerie, 2002 omnibus edition (3 vols.).The Light-Bearer's Daughter (Amulet, 2007).Whelan.Ĭurrently living in her hometown of Bray, County Wicklow, Melling is still writing and has a daughter. in Mediaeval History, Melling has written film scripts and papers and is a literary critic under her actual name, G. in philosophy and Celtic Studies from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and an M.A. Melling was born in Ireland and was brought up in Toronto, Ontario with seven sisters and two brothers. Melling's novels are read by both adults and young adults and contain stories mostly written around Irish and Celtic folklore, faeries in particular. Whelan, is an author of several fantasy novels. Please be sure that the supposed source of the copyright violation is not itself a Wikipedia mirror. Please review ( CopyVios) and remedy this by editing this article to remove any non-free copyrighted content and attributing free content correctly, or flagging the content for deletion. This article may have been copied and pasted from another location, possibly in violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy.
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