Murdoch's Tale - Paperback

by T. F. Gray (Author)

A medieval tale of fantasy and adventure, the novel explores themes of peacemaking and respect for indigenous peoples and the environment.Murdoch's Tale tells the story of Corwin, who, as a small child witnessed the massacre of his village during the Border Wars between England and Scotland.His rescuer, Tovan, is a Faer, or "faerie," as we call them, the original people of Europe, also known as "the People of Peace." The question he asks Corwin haunts the boy. "Why do your people do this?"

Author Biography

Teri Gray grew up in the Jersey 'burbs, twenty miles from Times Square, in a town too small to have a traffic light, wandering the forest, fantasizing about people living in holes in the ground, long after the other kids her age had outgrown that sort of childish nonsense. She came to writing like most everything else in her life. High school newspaper editor-in-chief followed by a degree in Art Ed, followed by a stint as editor of a small publication in Honolulu, in addition to a wide assortment of jobs ranging from restaurant hostess to bartender to field interviewer to postmistress relief to banking to her personal favorite, Communications Director of the Newark Food Co-op. Along the way, wedged between work, raising three children, and the occasional bout of illness, she wrote. Eventually, she found out about the existence of critique groups and started actually learning how to write. She's not an example of the breakthrough novelist. If anything, she's an example of the motto, Persistence Pays. The child who was a toddler when she started writing Corwin's Chronicle is now pushing thirty. She is a facilitator with the Alternatives to Violence Project, (www.avpusa.org) has worked with the AVP program at James T Vaughn Correctional Center, and blogs about Corwin-related matters at www.tfgray.com and about gardening at www. suburbutopia.com.