After the journeys of Two White Feathers and a Handful of Rocks and Enchanted Beings, life changes direction.

Within a short space of time, multiple deaths in my family begin to dismantle the world I thought I understood. Grief arrives not as a single event but as a series of losses that quietly reshape the landscape of everyday life.

Searching for somewhere to make sense of it all, I am drawn to Glastonbury.

Its hills, myths and ancient landscape become more than places to visit. They become companions in the journey, reflecting experiences that are often difficult to put into words.

Walking the Glastonbury Zodiac, Arthurian stories, ancestral history and symbolic encounters begin to mirror my own life. An enigmatic storyteller appears at unexpected moments, gently opening new ways of seeing loss, belonging and identity.

At first, these experiences seem disconnected.

Gradually, they begin to reveal another pattern.

Summerlands is a book about grief, place and the quiet collapse of certainty. It explores what happens when familiar ways of understanding no longer work, and the world begins asking us to see it differently.

It is the pivotal third book in the five-book journey — the moment where outward exploration gives way to a deeper inner search, preparing the path that unfolds in Sin-eater and is finally understood in Once the Fair Goes.