The Road to Corlay

The first coming was the Man; The second was Fire to burn Him; The third was Water to drown the Fire; The fourth is the Bird of Dawning. PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN The Drowning, the great rising of the seas, had left Britain as seven island kingdoms; a thousand years later, their people occupied a medieval world dominated by the Church Militant. To the ancient city of York came Old Peter the Tailspinner and the Boy, Tom, whose unearthly piping could bring men joy and sorrow beyond imagining. It was Tom's martyrdom on the walls of York that established a movement that would sweep the world, and a message of hope — the legend of the White Bird of Kinship. THE ROAD TO CORLAY Twenty years on, the Kin are many, and their persecution by the Church ferocious. And from a misty time before the Drowning others watch in helpless fascination as the wing beat of the White Bird is heard across the world to come... THE ROAD TO CORLAY: the first book in a glowing, magical fantasy 'Moving, beautifully envisioned by the excellent Richard Cowper' Daily Telegraph 'Brilliant' Tribune