Songwoman

✍ Scribed by Ilka Tampke

• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 245 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain,Great Britain., Wales,Wales.
• ISBN: 1925626679

✦ Synopsis

One woman's quest to defend her culture.

Haunted by the Roman attack that destroyed her home, Ailia flees to the remote Welsh mountains in search of the charismatic war king, Caradog, who is leading a guerrilla campaign against the encroaching army.
Ailia proves herself an indispensable advisor to the war king, but as the bond between them deepens, she realises the terrible role she must play to save the soul of her country.

Set in Iron-Age Britain, Songwoman is a powerful exploration of the ties between people and their land and what happens when they are broken.

Ilka Tampke teaches fiction at RMIT University. Her first novel, Skin , was published in eight countries and was nominated for the Voss Literary Prize and the Aurealis Awards in 2016. Ilka lives on five acres in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria.

'Songwoman is a sparkling piece of writing, shot through with complex moral struggles and questions about what it...

✦ Subjects

Wales