![]() They are anchored in three landscapes: the Thames valley of her upbringing, the Cornish coast of her childhood holidays, and the valley of the Dovey, in Wales, where her mother's family lived – a territory that "just got hold of me, it was my other home".Ĭooper is speaking not in any of these places, but in her house on the South Shore of Massachusetts. ![]() Together the five stories, which vibrate with echoes of the Arthurian legend, are the most celebrated of her books, deriving much of their power from a meeting of myth and place. It is the second in Cooper's The Dark Is Rising sequence. It is the story of Will, who, on his 11th birthday, wakes up to find that he can work magic, and steps into the silent snow of a solstice morning to become bound up with the eternal battle between the forces of Dark and Light. To its devotees it is as indelibly linked with Christmas as the pile of presents beneath the tree or carols on the radio. E very midwinter, as the year dies, there is a ritual in which some grownups, old enough to know better, indulge: we reread Susan Cooper's children's story The Dark Is Rising. ![]()
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