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ISLES OF THE EARTHBOUND

E A Underwood

ISBN 978-1-83574-045-3

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Publication: 27 SEPTEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781835740453
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 352 pp
Thema: FV Historical Fiction

Author location & book location: Somerset

• Isles of the Earthbound is an exciting and
mystical tale that follows a group of seafarers
from the West Coast of Scotland has made a
voyage of discovery deep into the Atlantic to a
land they name Tìr- ùr
• Inspired by, and broadly based upon, various
areas of the West of England: river estuaries,
the moorland uplands of Dartmoor and
Exmoor and the caves of the Mendip Hills.
• Perfect for fans of Rosie Hewlett and Lucy
Holland.

E A Underwood lives on a smallholding in the Blackdown Hills in Circa 500 AD. Daring seafarers from the West Coast of
Somerset. When not writing stories or growing food, she can be Scotland have made a voyage of discovery deep into the
found wandering along rivers, across the moors, in the woods or by Atlantic to a land they name Tìr-ùr. Bountiful, verdant,
the sea. Always fascinated by stories of mythical lands, Isles of the seemingly empty and ripe for the taking. That is until they
Earthbound is her first novel and the result of musings on what might encounter the earthbound, a race possessed of some
have happened if our ancestors had discovered such a place. characteristics the colonists find profoundly unsettling.

Off the coast of this new land, on the fortress island of
Tèarmann, a young woman, Fìrinn, awaits her arranged
marriage to Amrhan, a charming and fascinating nobleman
newly arrived from the distant homeland. The only child of
the leader of the settlers and his earthbound wife, Fìrinn is
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Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk Isles of the Earthbound is the story of a defiant young
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evocation of the natural world in all its aspects, both the
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