The People in the Picture

By Haydn Middleton

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345347285
• ISBN13: 9780345347282
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I couldn't put it down!

I started reading this and could hardly put it down! It had such a mysterious, other wordly feel to it, yet it is not fantasy. It takes place in modern England, but has a mythical feel to it and seems completely plausible. Was Lacy just an odd man, or is he something else?

A real find for lovers of Welsh Mythology.

Knowing my love of old mythogies, especially Celtic ones, my aunt recently sent me a copy of this book that she'd found at a Library sale. It's a great attempt to show what it might be like to have an Old mythic being, Taliesin, (in Welsh mythology a magical poet and shapeshifter) involve himself with a young woman and her family in contemporary England. It has some odd shifts and mysterious happenings...in some ways akin to Fowles/THE MAGUS. After reading it, I immediately began to research Celtic/Welsh myth to try to better understand some of the elusive qualities/forms Middleton had his Taliesin take. Though, I have to admit,I'm still not certain Lacey WAS Taliesin. If you know Celtic myth (which Middleton did, and published another book on) you'll probably end up like I did...reaching for the old books to help you decide whether this mysterious stranger was a good old Being, or a dangerous troublemaker!