Following the journeys of Two White Feathers and a Handful of Rocks and Enchanted Beings, Jenny Chapman turns towards one of Britain’s most symbolically layered landscapes: the Glastonbury Zodiac.

Travelling through the twelve earthworks traditionally associated with the zodiacal signs, each stage of the journey becomes both a physical destination and an encounter with grief, memory, and identity. What begins as exploration gradually becomes recognition, as recurring emotional patterns reveal themselves through landscape, myth, and lived experience.

Arthurian stories, ancestral narratives, and symbolic figures begin to overlap with personal memory. Rather than existing as mythology alone, they become ways of understanding experiences that lie beyond straightforward explanation, allowing deeper layers of grief and emotional inheritance to come into view.

Accompanied at times by an enigmatic storyteller, the journey moves through fragmentation towards greater coherence, exploring how place, story, and symbolic imagination can illuminate the patterns that quietly shape a life.

The third book in a five-volume series, Summerlands forms the bridge between outer pilgrimage and inner exploration, preparing the way for the deeper investigations into memory and pre-verbal trauma that follow in Sin-eater.