The Wind Eye (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Westall
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—time travel
- Time of Work: May, 1976, and the year 875
- Setting: The Northumberland coast of England
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1970’s, Folkloric or magical people, England or English people, Time travel, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Boats or boating, Vikings, Ninth century
- Locales: England
The Plot
The Wind Eye is the second published book by Robert Westall, and it received marginal recognition. It followed his first, highly acclaimed book, The Machine-Gunners (1975), which won the Carnegie Medal in Britain. In The Wind Eye, Professor Bertrand Studdard announces to his family that they will be vacationing at his deceased uncle’s resort villa on England’s remote Northumberland coast. His wife, Madeleine, protests, her display establishing the spousal friction portrayed throughout the remainder of the novel. Michael, Madeleine’s son, is...
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