Lavondyss

"This book is the second in the series. The first is Mythago Wood. It is set just after WW2. So, it’s at a time when there are still untended and unexploited areas of the countryside. And there is this researcher who believes that by going into the woods and wearing a strange contraption that monitors his brainwaves, he can get in touch with beings, that are drawn partly from his own subconscious and partly from the wood itself. These beings appear almost as ghosts. The wood expands. Although the area is quite small, once you go into it, you can get lost in its labyrinth. Lavondyss takes us further. It is a journey to the ancient roots of lots of familiar myths. Holdstock has this wonderful ability to imagine how those societies existed just after the ice age and how their rituals gave birth to these stories. Of course, stories change over time, we are continually reinventing them. Yes, I did these little drawings. Robert Holdstock was very attached to them so I gave him the originals. He sadly died a few years ago. I haven’t read these books for a long time but I’m getting excited about them again."