Lamp Black, Wolf Grey by Paula Brackston is a novel set in Wales both past and present day. Laura, an artist moves from London to the Welsh countryside with her husband Dan, hoping to find a quiet place to paint and finally conceive a child. What she doesn’t imagine is that the veil between worlds is thin here, for those who have the eyes to see, and before long she encounters none other than Merlin himself.

Brackston had me hooked from the beginning, this is a marvelous book to disappear into, I was transported to another time and place. However, I felt the novel took an unnecessary disturbing turn and devolved into a far less magical novel than it could have been by the end. Disappointing.