Determined to break the curse despite her captivity, Sorcha continues to work, little expecting that ultimately she will have to chose between saving her brothers and protecting the Briton lord who has defended her throughout her trials. Only Sorcha, hiding deep in the forest, can break the spell by painfully weaving shirts of starwort nettle-but then Sorcha is captured by Britons and taken away across the sea.
By her spell Sorcha's brothers are cursed to become swans. Soon after, Colum brings home a new wife who ensorcels everyone she can't otherwise manipulate. Not all of his sons are so bound to the old ways, and that family friction leads to outright disobedience when Sorcha and her brother Finbar help a Briton captive escape from Colum's dungeon.
Colum is first and foremost a warrior, bent on maintaining his lands against all outsiders. Young Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Irish Lord Colum of Sevenwaters, a domain well protected from invading Saxons and Britons by dense forest where, legend says, fey Deirdre, the Lady of the Forest, walks the woodland paths at night. Marillier's story, however, is much more than a slightly disguised fairy tale. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īt the heart of this surprisingly accomplished first novel, first book of the Sevenwaters trilogy, is a retelling of an ancient Celtic legend. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all. When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once.
If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment.īut Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift-by staying silent. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Daughter of the Forest, the first book in Juliet Marillier's award-winning Sevenwaters Trilogy
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