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The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo and anticipate the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life. �� as bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound.� Philip Pullman, The Guardian �instantly evokes T H White�s The Once and Future King in blending the pastoral idyll of a medieval manor with the myths of King Arthur. There the similarity ends � this is truly a crossover book, settling in the interesting space between children�s and adult fiction.� The Times