She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan, now 38, and Nora, 34), writing, horseback riding, fishing, and birdwatching. DARK LIE, recently released from NAL, is her first venture into mass-market psychological suspense.īorn in Montclair, New Jersey, Nancy Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen. Note: Opinions expressed in reviews and articles on this site are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of BookLoons.Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery - although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. And, scorning fate and future, she makes her choice. She wins (and loses) her true love and so doing, sets in motion events that lead to Arthur's pulling the sword from the stone. I Am Morgan le Fay is the story of a spirited and powerful young woman, abandoned too young by her parents, and growing up needy and greedy for love. Like Mordred, Morgan tries and fails to challenge fate, in her case to safeguard the life of true Thomas, a young man that she has met and loved. There Morgan is summoned, for she is one of them and is the possessor of a druid stone, a milpreve. When Uther dies, Igraine is fought over and mistreated by various warleaders, eventually going mad and taking refuge in Avalon with the fays. Then Igraine is taken away by Uther, and Morgan and Morgause left to the care of their Nurse Ongwynn, who is not quite what she seems. The author shows us these events through the mismatched eyes of young Morgan, who does not quite understand that her father is dead since she saw him that night.

Merlin's help in this endeavour is won with the promise of the resulting baby son (of course Igraine is not consulted). Soon King Uther Pendragon kills the Duke of Cornwall and, the same night, comes to Igraine disguised as her husband. We meet Morgan first at Caer Tintagel as the six year old daughter of Igraine the Beautiful, and her father's ' little firebrand'. In it, Nancy Springer shows us the reality of women's lives in a time when they were chattel, and knights were not the chivalrous Round Table types of myth, but rather foul tempered believers in ' Might is Right'. Though I found Mordred's point of view a truly intriguing take on the Camelot myth, I enjoyed I Am Morgan le Fay even more. This is a companion book to the author's brilliant I Am Mordred, which told the tale of a child who grows up knowing that he is fated to end a golden age and destroy the father that he admires. I Am Morgan le Fay: A Tale from Camelot by Nancy Springer

I am morgan le fay by nancy springer