Review: Reading is Seeing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
Wassailing, we are told, in Under the Apple Boughs, is "a propitiatory practice, of course. Appeasing the spirits of the fields and trees.''  Somewhere, somehow, the spirits of writers must sense that they are more than appeased by Peter Maughan's peerless story of a year in the life of  every living thing residing on the borderland between Wales and England including that magical realm where the spirits dwell.  Maughan truly typifies the Welsh meaning of the word Druid:  seer.  He sees, describes and enables us to see the magic too.