num_pages: 719
description: Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison's The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik's power. But one night Tarrik rescues Sphaeros, an Hellenic philosopher, from a shipwreck. Sphaeros in turn rescues Tarrik from near death and so breaks the enchantment that has bound him. And so begins for Tarrik a Quest - a fabulous voyage of discovery which will bring him new knowledge and which will reunite him with his beautiful Spring Queen.
language: English
title: Corn King and the Spring Queen
titlecomplete: Corn King and the Spring Queen (The Hera Series)
characters: Erif Der
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Scotland, Ancient, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Mythology
ratings_count: 209
places: Black Sea
publisher: Soho Press