The Northern Girl

Locus Award nominee 1981.

This, the story of Sorren, bondgirl and Fartraveller who returns to Tornor Keep where she has never been, completes Elizabeth A. Lynn's acclaimed new fantasy trilogy about a land bright with magic and peopled with warriors, lovers and dancers.

At a time when the use of weapons has been forgotten, and the dancing cheari warriors of Arun are only a myth, a magical land knows peace. Then a young servant girl called Sorren is haunted in her dreams by Tornor Keep – the legendary tower that was created to protect the realm from its enemies. To discover the meaning of these visions, she will undergo a quest to the watchtower; and a humble girl will become part of revolution in which the common people find the courage to stand up to tyranny...