“A map and a puzzle-poem, found in the back of an old collection of children’s tales in a second-hand bookshop.  The quest to solve it leads Wendy Willowbank to ancient sites and modern witchcraft in the South Downs.  It forces her to confront personal traumas and supernatural horror and re-awakens a long-dormant sexual obsession.  She finds both her loyalty and her sense of self tested to breaking point.  If she can find the long-buried secret she will have solved a thirty-year-old mystery, with the prospect of international fame and success. 

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But is any of it worth as much as a best friend?”

 

This website is a companion piece to the novel Sally Gwenarby and supplies some back ground to aspects of the story, along with other work by Dii Hunter Hammond, along with some information (not much) about the author.

 

The Locations of Sally Gwenarby are Mid-West Wales and the English South Downs.

Its themes are Paganism and rationalism; friendship and isolation; ambition and values. 

Its main characters are Wendy Willowbank, a thirty year old geologist post-doc, Hazel Bayleaf, the disfigured daughter of a witch; Caspar Milton, a rapaciouisly ambitious academic, and Sally Gwenarby, a succubus (“that which lies beneath…”)