The Song of Rhiannon

Excellent. Although she continues to romanticize the pagan past–which is, by definition, unrealistic–I love these books. Walton retells the stories of the Mabinogion with grace, respect, and great beauty. Although she is definitely a modern writer, with a modern writer's concern for psychology and detail, her books never make me feel like I am reading a modern attempt at retelling an older story. Rather, they have such integrity that they read seamlessly with the air of authenticity. The only thing I do not like is her tendency to expand the meaning of a sentence with a sentence fragment after the sentence. Which she does fairly often.