Flowers End
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In a tale of myth and magic, a young woman travels to a remote Welsh valley to trace her family's history, only to discover more about herself and her forebears than she bargained for.
Gerard O'Keeffe
Gerard O'Keeffe was born and brought up in the Midlands and studied Irish and American literature in London before qualifying as a teacher. He switched careers to business and marketing across the charity sector, where he worked with leading social enterprises, cultural and educational providers. He continues to work in consultancy, education and on creative projects with new talent. Coming from a family with Irish roots, he has written and painted since his teenage years, as have his siblings. In his writing he often changes genre but is particularly interested in themes of trauma, silence and salvation. Much of his fiction has its basis in fact and he uses research and real events as the springboard for his work. He lives with his family in Cambridge where he enjoys collecting contemporary art, working with other writers and attending arts events.
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Flowers End - Gerard O'Keeffe
Flowers End
by
Gerard O’Keeffe
Smashwords Edition
Copyright Gerard O’Keeffe 2012
gerardokeeffe.com
Flowers End
Come,
said Math, son of Mathonwy, let us try, with our magic and enchantment to conjure up a wife for Lleu out of flowers.
Now at that time Lleu was a grown man, the most handsome who had ever been seen. However, he had vowed to marry no mortal woman. Thus, they took the flowers of the oak trees, broom flowers and the flowers of the meadow-sweet, and fashioned the fairest and most perfect girl that man had ever seen. And they baptized her by the binding sacred rite they used in those days, and