The Woman Who Loved an Octopus

Revivingthe first-millennium world of Celtic women saintsmost of themfar from saintly by current definitionsthese inventivestories are not historical tracts or faithful retellings; instead they use the oldlegends as the framework for new plots, some of them set in the contemporary world.The perilous flight of Madrun, the daughter of King Gwyrtheryn, for example, is transmuted into a story ofescape from an eastern European war zone, and St. Non israped and expelled from her convent, asin thefamiliar version of thetale, but this time around shecomes back for revenge."