Ysabel

Ysabel
Guy Gavriel Kay

In this exhilarating, moving novel set in modern and ancient Provence, Guy Gavriel Kay casts brilliant light on the ways in which history – whether of a culture or a family – refuses to be buried.Ned Marriner, fifteen years old, has accompanied his photographer father to Provence for a six-week “shoot” of images for a glossy coffee-table book. Gradually, Ned discovers a very old story playing itself out in this modern world of iPods, cellphones, and seven-seater vans whipping along roads walked by Celtic tribes and the Roman Legions.On one holy, haunted night of the ancient year, when the borders between the living and the dead are down and fires are lit upon the hills, Ned, his family, and his friends, are shockingly drawn into this tale, as dangerous, mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, claiming and changing lives.

YSABEL

GUY GAVRIEL KAY

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by Simon and Schuster UK 2007

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For Linda McKnight and Anthea Morton-Saner

There is one story and one story only That will prove worth your telling, Whether as learned bard or gifted child; To it all lines or lesser gauds belong That startle with their shining Such common stories as they stray into.

—ROBERT GRAVES

Table of Contents

Cover (#ub6b24144-23fb-53ea-aaf0-a6713152a28f)

Title Page (#u9dd41429-318a-5361-b0cd-f063cbed7324)

Copyright (#u823026e5-9abb-5451-a317-fc79a9b017c9)

Dedication (#u70e1bfb4-c6be-539b-90f8-419b1b7b6b4f)

Prologue (#u72ecbab6-9124-57ec-a4d4-0d6a20309c6f)

Part One (#u6ea555dd-c880-5471-9772-678a7161cac2)

Chapter I (#u61bec9c2-f8c9-5c7e-b5c1-331f5e8d724e)

Chapter II (#u850379b1-6a90-5bd4-be45-cef2c350ddc2)

Chapter III (#u6f96fa4b-5dcc-5f46-a4bd-37a0006bcf7f)

Chapter IV (#u1fbca3d7-eb8a-5420-bd9d-ada929f2b15a)

Chapter V (#u4015bfad-3dd0-5bf2-b6fe-e18f11cd13e8)

Chapter VI (#u68c529c9-bf8f-513d-980c-7920da8e76f9)

Chapter VII (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter VIII (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter IX (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter X (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XI (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XII (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XIII (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XIV (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XV (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XVI (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XVII (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XVIII (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter XIX (#litres_trial_promo)

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Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)