![]() ![]() The storyline moves at its own speed, which means that it is rather slow and relatively uneventful most of the book. Robert Holdstock’s writing is almost poetic in its descriptions, but unsentimental and rather matter-of-fact. Later Stephen meets the mythago girl Guiwenneth, starting his involvement with the Wood’s mysteries. Their recently deceased father seemed to have suffered from the same obsession and eventually Christian also vanishes into the Wood himself. ![]() ![]() But in 1946 Stephen returns home from service, after healing his war wounds, to find Christian obsessed by the creatures from Ryhope Wood, the mythagos – mythical/legendary characters come true by the Wood. During they childhood the strange people that sometimes passed by their home were dismissed as “travelling gypsies” by their parents. Stephen Huxley and his brother Christian grew up in England near a forest, Ryhope Wood. ![]()
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