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Title	:	The Bell at Sealey Head
Author	:	Patricia A. McKillip
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 277 pages
Published	:	September 2nd 2008 by Ace Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. Romance

The Bell at Sealey Head

Patricia A. McKillip

Hardcover | Pages: 277 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 2413 Users | 252 Reviews

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Dream a little dream of a little book, perfect in every way; a story about a little village on the seacoast, less than perfect but full of charm, a lived-in village with charming, lived-in characters; a village with a mysterious crumbling manor with many doors to another world: a world of rituals and ravenous crows and glassy-eyed knights and a trapped princess and an uncertain doom; the world of a castle, a castle in a book. Dream a dream of spells, two wizards and a wood witch and her daughter, and a strange bell that tolls from nowhere each night; dream a dream of a little romance, sweet and pure. A book about books, about the wonder of reading, about readers and their voyages and writers and their trials and victories. A book that loves books. The theme: the power of stories. A motif: what are the eyes saying, what sort of house exists behind those windows, look to the eyes. The prose: refined, delicate and lovely. The feel: wispy and evanescent. The result: it was like a nap in the park on a sunny, breezy day, a nap full of little dreams, all these little connected dreams within one enchanting dream. I imagine I was smiling throughout this happy dream; I woke from it still smiling.

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Original Title:	The Bell at Sealey Head
ISBN:	0441016308 (ISBN13: 9780441016303)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2009), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2009)

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This book reminded me of Robin McKinley's Beauty: both feature young women in an unspecified past (resembling 18th-19th century Europe) who encounter a castle just a little more magic than it should be. Enchantment doesn't overwhelm either book; it peeks from around corners and from inside the buds of flowers. Sarcastic Miss Gwyneth Blair is being courted, but she prefers the bookworm who runs the ramshackle inn. Meanwhile, serving girl Emma is worried about her friend, the princess Ysabo. She

Dream a little dream of a little book, perfect in every way; a story about a little village on the seacoast, less than perfect but full of charm, a lived-in village with charming, lived-in characters; a village with a mysterious crumbling manor with many doors to another world: a world of rituals and ravenous crows and glassy-eyed knights and a trapped princess and an uncertain doom; the world of a castle, a castle in a book. Dream a dream of spells, two wizards and a wood witch and her



At heart this is a fairy tale about stories. Like Robin McKinley's work, this book is fantasy on the small and private level. McKillip tells the story of a group of people (think Cranford) and the magic that is part of their lives. All the characters are well drawn and none of the characters is a cliche. In addition to the actual novel, one of the characters tells a story to her younger siblings. In fact, when this is first down, the reader feels the disappointment of that story breaking off.

A pleasant exploration of magic in a small coastal town. Each day a bell is heard at sunset, although no one knows where the bell is. At the same time, a maid in Aislinn House sometimes opens doors and sees another young girl in the world across the threshold. When a magician arrives in Sealey Head, events are set in motion to solve both mysteries.This is a light tale, but enjoyable. I chose it because the picture from the cover is featured in my calendar this year of paintings by K.Y. Craft.

One of her best works. Beautiful, beautiful.Except for Mrs.Quinn.

There's not much of a feeling of peril or huge things at stake and the final battle is something of an anticlimax in Patricia A. McKillip's The Bell at Sealey Head, but the book was a pleasant, atmospheric read in often poetic language populated by characters I was interested in. Like most of her books, The Bell at Sealey Head uses magic, finding yourself, and the power of words as her subjects, but here we also have people stuck in miserable ruts because it seems easier and less dangerous than