In the Blood

Novel based after WW2

North Wales, 1945. Twelve-year-old Jackie is an evacuee, Iolo, her host, is touched by Gwyn apNudd, the Welsh god of the chase, and from him Jackie learns hunting's ancientsecret lore. She knows every hound in his pack, every stream and covert intheir valley, and by sleeping in their kennels, understands their dreams. Bythe war's end she sees herself as more hound than girl. When her mothercomes to reclaim her, Jackie is transplanted to a derelict estate inWestmorland. Its owner, Major Wetheral, is the local Master of Foxhouds. But hisEnglish way of hunting flouts the Welsh god's lore, courting disaster for him andthe Wetheral line. His troubled fourteen-year-old, Oliver, is fiercely opposedto blood sports, and as the bond between Jackie and Oliver deepens the huntpresents new and frightening challenges for them both. Can Jackie,through her knowledge of the god, avert the doom that haunts the Wetherals? Orwill she be trapped in the fate of an English house and its master?