Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley
This, the eagerly awaited link between THE FOREST HOUSE and THE MISTS OF AVALON, spans the creation of Avalon itself, right up to the birth of King Arthur.
This enchanting novel of the Holy Isle is told through the successive lives of its three most powerful priestesses: Caillean; Dierna; and finally Viviane, high priestess of Avalon and Lady of the Lake who safeguards the Grail.
A masterpiece
—— Sunday TelegraphAs rich and exciting as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, but deeper and more disturbing... It begins as a murder mystery but ends in a revelation of deeper mysteries of death and rebirth
—— New York TimesHighly imaginative
—— GuardianA short, charged and imaginative fable-cum-murder-mystery which uses [Fuller's] gift for narrative and for elaborate metaphor to great effect
—— Sunday Times'Absolutely outrageous - a dazzling writer'
—— Jilly Cooper , The Sunday Times'This is a dirty book'
—— The Times Literary Supplement'Fine comic scenes...readers will have trouble putting Sap Rising down, even if their gorge rises'
—— Daily Express'Imagine Barbara Pym writing for Penthouse'
—— Literary Review'He writes so brilliantly'
—— Daniel Farson , Evening Standard'Extremely funny'
—— Time Out'Do not buy this book'
—— Guardian'Frightful pile of garbage'
—— New Statesman