217:. Steven Huxley and the mythago Guiwenneth have been living in Ryhope wood where they are raising their two children, each half-human, half-mythago. The older boy, Jack, wishes to know about the outside world while the younger girl, Yssobel, dreams about her uncle Christian, who vanished into Lavondyss at the end of
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drive and intensity, is an enthralling reworking of myth and a haunting vision of love and loss unmatched in contemporary fantasy."
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have little bearing on the events in the Ryhope wood. See the table below for a chronology of events within Ryhope wood.
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567:"In the Valley of the Statues" (1979)
564:"The Touch of a Vanished Hand" (1977)
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576:"The Phantom of the Valley" (1981)
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386:"Mythopoiec Society 2010 Awards"
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573:"Where Time Winds Blow" (1981)
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594:"The Shapechanger" (1989)
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606:"The Silvering" (1992)
561:"A Small Event" (1977)
552:"On the Inside" (1976)
537:"Pauper's Plot" (1969)
950:Where Time Winds Blow
603:"The Ragthorn" (1991)
783:(volume four) (1979)
781:Lords of the Shadows
591:"Scarrowfell" (1987)
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816:You'll be All Right
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579:"Manchanged" (1981)
558:"Travellers" (1976)
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540:"Microcosm" (1972)
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