A Different Kingdom (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Kearney
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—mythological
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: Northern Ireland and the Wildwood
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1950’s, Folkloric or magical people, Mythology or myths, Forests or forestry, Orphans or orphanages, Ireland or Irish people, Elves, Werewolves
- Locales: Northern Ireland
The Plot
Orphaned by a bomb blast that kills his parents, Michael Fay is brought up by his grandparents on a large, remote farm in rural Antrim in Northern Ireland. He is left alone, except by his Aunt Rose, a warm, very sexual, young woman.
When he is eight years old, Michael trips on the riverbank and gets his first sight of the Fox-People from an alternate world. Subsequently, wolves swarm into his world, unnoticed by others but capable of killing. To add to his problems, Rose becomes pregnant and dies in childbirth. A local man is blamed, but the real father is a...
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