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KATE HORSLEY

Set in Ireland at the time Christianity was starting to take hold, and over power the old ways of the pagan Druids. Gwynneve learned the ways of a healer gathering herbs and fungi deep in the forest from her mother. Her mother frequently was called upon to help and to heal. Gwyn was also known to take sustenance to families in need. Her husband was also a Druid but he was taken way by the monks, the tonsured ones, who burned their simple home and all their medicines and belongings. Eventually she joined a community of nuns but that life spoiled when a group of brothers joined them and the abbot took control. Fascinating reading about an irresolute time.

“I had thought that the love of Christ would make us kinder and less likely to smash skulls. But now I see that we will be asked to smash skulls for Christ.

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