Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

Juliet Marillier

Apr 2010 · Sevenwaters Book 1 · Sold by Macmillan

About this ebook

Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love.

Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac.

But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift.

To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror.

When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once.

Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ratings and reviews

I have read the Sevenwaters Trilogy over and over for years, I absolutely love it. The characters are well written and just so engrossing. I will never tire of this trilogy. I have leant this book to friends, whose husbands have asked me to never show them another book as this book took all their focus, which I totally understand. A book that is very hard to put down once you start.

Certainly one of my favorite books. I have never gone through such a roller coaster of emotions from reading a book before. It was honestly incredible, though I admit I had to keep setting the book down to let the new situation set in my head and sink in as well as to cry a few times, but still one of the best books I've ever read.

I have read this trilogy well over 5 times. I find myself wanting to return to the story and the writing style of this author seriously makes u feel as if Ur in the story itself. I wish they would make a film out of these books

About the author

Juliet Marillier achieved international recognition with the publication of the first two award-winning novels in the Sevenwaters Trilogy, a historical fantasy set in Ireland and Britain in the ninth century, and loosely based on the fairy tale “The Six Swans”. Her other historical fantasy series include the Viking-inspired Light Isles duology and the Bridei Chronicles set in north Britain in the time of the Picts.