The Shareg - Isle Fincara Trilogy (3)

A time-traveller lost on a Celtic island: a medieval world with a valiant woman priest. As tensions between Celtic tradition and an authoritarian church come to a head, the Islanders rise to protect their way of life. A story that draws on history to raise questions about how we want to live today.

On the Island, where seals play in the shallows, eagles soar and crofters and craftsmen follow a pattern of life inherited from their ancestors, a missionary push is underway to change a culture.

Enter a world like eleventh-century Britain; an island like the Western Isles. Caerpadraig is the only town with a woman for their priest. And there lives a time-traveller from the twenty-first century, whom the Islanders call Dhion.

When the town’s headman—the shareg—feels his age and must retire, Dhion finds himself caught up in the leadership contest. But soon a much bigger struggle will face the Islanders, heralded by the Archpriest’s pelerines—a new religious order, now on the move, and intent on changing everything.

A tale of courage and conflict, loyalty and betrayal, played out by strong characters, and contrasting the organic development of a culture with the impact of an inflexible ideology.

The Isle Fincara Trilogy. Three books of visionary fiction that ask what it might be like to live in a society that honours both the natural world and the compassion of Christ. And what might come to threaten the Islanders’ traditional way of life.

Ceredigion author A G Rivett (www.agrivett.com) claims to have lived several lives in the course of his one life. Born in London, raised in the Home Counties, he has been a doctor, a priest, and a crofter in the Scottish Highlands. He has lived in rural Northern Nigeria and knows what a simpler life looks like, less dependent on technology. He now lives in Ceredigion with his wife, Gillian Paschkes-Bell, who works with him as his creative and collaborative editor. He has three daughters and two grandsons.