The Flowering of the May (Author's Notes)

Please note that this page contains major spoilers for The Flowering of the May. I cannot recommend enough that you read the story first.

As a lot of you will know, Arthuriana is my intellectual passion. I've had a lifelong fascination with Arthurian literature and legends, and I was lucky enough to have the chance to study a number of texts in depths as part of my degree. Until I tackled this, though, I'd never managed to put down my own interpretation. Almost as soon as I began to plan the story I was faced with a number of choices. I thought it might be interesting to explain why I made the choices I did, and to provide a little more information about some of the places Rhys and the others travel through.

I also want to make it clear that, with the exception of the final scene, every step of their journey can be retraced. All these places exist and you are more than welcome to follow along with a map/aerial photograph. For that reason I'm going to plug Google Earth, because I could never have written this without having access to their aerial photographs.

I have divided the notes into sections by day.

( Day 1: Westminster to Burnham )

( Day 2: Burnham to Stonor Park )

( Day 3: Stonor Park to Langdon Hill )

( Day 4: Langdon Hill to Letcombe Bassett )

( Day 5: Letcombe Bassett to Waylands Smithy )

( Day 6: Waylands Smithy to Barbury Castle )

( Day 7: Barbury castle to Avebury )

( Day 8: Avebury to Glastonbury )