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The Woman from Kyiv

“If there was something hidden inside all this…” she said slowly, “…something buried beneath records and archives and all the things he spent his life studying…”
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The Woman from Kyiv

“As I mentioned earlier, Mrs Trevelyan’s article wasn’t wrong,” she said. “It simply wasn’t the whole story.”
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The Woman from Kyiv

Only after these matters had received the attention they evidently deserved did Oksana’s name enter the conversation.
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The Woman from Kyiv

The features were simple enough, yet the figure possessed a distinct individuality that resisted being dismissed as a mere ornament. Someone had cared about this doll. A child had carried it. An adult had preserved it. A family had chosen, generation after generation, not to throw it away. Now it had travelled across Europe to…
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Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on the Lost Land of Lyonesse, Robert Hunt, and the Hidden Foundations of Brindlemark

Hunt cites the Saxon Chronicle, which records that on the third before the Nones of November in 1099 — upon the first day of the new moon — the sea overflowed, destroying towns and drowning people, oxen, and sheep.
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Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on How Red Tree, White Tree Echoes Through Their Own Stories

Reading it, I found myself recognising many of the same concerns that gradually emerged in our own stories, though perhaps we arrived at them from the opposite direction.
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Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon on Red Tree, White Tree by Wendy Berg

What impressed me most was Berg’s refusal to reduce the Arthurian stories to either naïve fantasy or dry symbolism.
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The Caledonian Sleeper

The sleeper train journey from London to northern England evokes a haunting atmosphere as characters Sylvia and Lillian encounter a mysterious woman in green. This woman, revealing her fractured identity linked to ancient rituals, confronts her past at a midsummer festival. With a delicate exchange, she reconnects with her original name, Anna, before vanishing.


