Moonheart
core novel 1984 Moonheart / Spiritwalk
Record
| First published | 1984 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.05 (6,786 ratings, collected 2026-09-28) |
| Page count | 485 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441537198 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
In 1980s Ottawa, Sara Kendell and her uncle Jamie Tamson run a cluttered antique shop out of Tamson House, the sprawling old family mansion that takes up an entire city block and plays host to a shifting household of artists, musicians and strays. Among a box of junk Sara finds a few odd artefacts, including a curious ring, and senses the pull of a dim and distant place: a world of misty forests, ancient magics, mythical beings and ageless bards. At the same time Kieran Foy, a folk musician with a wizard's training, is searching for his missing mentor, Thomas Hengwr, while dodging a newly formed and secret RCMP unit, Project Mindreach, that is investigating the paranormal. As these threads converge on the House, Sara is drawn through its portals into the Otherworld, where she meets the Welsh bard Taliesin, and a restless evil begins to stir.
Where it sits
- Universe: Moonheart / Spiritwalk
- Series: Tamson House core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles de Lint
Notes
- From the series record (Tamson House): Charles de Lint's Ottawa novels of Tamson House, the block-sized mansion that is a gateway between the modern city and a spirit world of Celtic and Native American magic: Moonheart and its sequel Spiritwalk, a fix-up of four linked tales. The author's own bibliography groups them as his Ottawa books, distinct from Newford.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Tamson House: position 1 of 2: next Spiritwalk (1992)
Sources
- Wikipedia
- Charles de Lint (official site)
- https://academic.macmillan.com/academictrade/9780312890049/moonheart
- https://www.charlesdelint.com/moonheart-desc01.htm
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