It’s beautifully written, and I enjoyed the beginning and ending of the book, but I found the bulk of the story confusing. However I have to admit I struggled with it somewhat. I had been really looking forward to reading this ever since I learned that Alys Clare is a pen name of one of my favourite authors, Elizabeth Harris. The waters of this spring are similar in colour and taste to Tunbridge Wells's famous Chalybeat Spring, and it was this that prompted Alys's setting of her fictional Hawkenlye Abbey in the very spot where her own house now stands. In England, Alys's study overlooks a stretch of parkland which includes a valley with a little spring. She lives for part of the year in Brittany, in a remote cottage deep in an ancient landscape where many past inhabitants have left their mark on her doorstep are relics that date from the stone circles and dolmens of the Neolithic to the commanderies, chapels and ancient tracks of those infamous warrior monks, the Knights Templar. Brought up in the countryside close to where the Hawkenlye Novels are set, she went to school in Tonbridge and later studied archaeology at the University of Kent. Alys Clare is the pen name used by Elizabeth Harris for the Hawkenlye series of historical mysteries.Īlys Clare is the pseudonym of a novelist with some 20 published works to her name.
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