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Wherever You Roam

The Road to Corlay  (The White Bird of Kinship, volume 1)

By Richard Cowper  

2 Oct, 2022

Because My Tears Are Delicious To You

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1978’s The Road to Corlay is the first of three volumes in Richard Cowper’s The White Bird of Kinship science/fantasy series. 

A thousand years after the Drowning reduced our current civilization to half-remembered folklore, the people of the Seven Kingdoms live a mediaeval existence under the watchful eye of the church. The year 3000 approaches; it is widely believed that the new millennium1 will usher in a new world order.

So much depends on a musically talented boy from a backwater community, on his way to ecclesiastical school.

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