Midnight is a Lonely Place

AUTHOR’S NOTE

The name Nion is taken from the Celtic Tree Calendar

Beth – Luis – Nion (Birch, Rowan, Ash) depicted by

Robert Graves.

This book has many roots: the awe and fear in a little boy’s voice many years ago, as we stared together through the window into a midnight garden after a bad dream; a lonely visit to Sutton Hoo on a cold afternoon in winter when the wind screamed through the firs and down across the River Deben; a long, thoughtful visit to the twisted body of Lindow Man in the British Museum and the view from my study window out across fields where Trinovantes and Romans once walked on the edge of the saltings with, in the distance, the icy North Sea, are some of the strongest.