Title: Bridging two worlds...
Product review: At sixteen Patrick is kidnapped by Irishmen from his home in post-Roman Britain and sold into slavery, where he is treated cruelly and nearly broken in spirit by his owner. Yet he manages to escape back to his homeland.The novel opens with a mature, forty year-old Patrick sent back to Ireland, the country of his enslavement, with the mission to convert the people of Eire to Christianity. But Patrick is not at peace with himself. He is driven by bitterness, anger, and insecurity. It is only through his growing friendship with the Irish bard, Osian, who has come from the Otherworld to help Patrick, and through his tales of his legendary Fenian father, Finn Mac Cool, that Patrick might be able to make peace with his past. This is also a novel about Ireland's Druidic past: their sage beliefs and customs, and their bonds with earth and spirit. It is where past and present blend and begin to become one in this mystical and romantic historical fantasy of ancient Ireland.
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