Daughter of the Forest

An Irish fairy tale retold beautifully as historical fantasy, in eighth century Ireland and Northumbria. Sometimes disturbing but always poetically phrased, this is a coming-of-age story that kept me reading long into the night and had me thinking of its main characters long after I (forcibly) put it down. The plot is quite a bit more complex than the blurbs let on, but as a character-oriented story it is never hard to follow.