The Lioness and Her Knight
core novel 2005 The Squire's Tales
Record
| First published | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.27 (2,698 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780618507726 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
Luneta is a restless girl from dull Orkney who longs for more excitement than her parents' home can offer. When she gets a chance to stay at a family friend's castle near Camelot, she jumps at it. Her cousin, the young knight Sir Ywain, escorts her to Arthur's court and picks up Rhience on the way, a knight who has sworn to act the fool for a year and whose wit deflates pompous people. At Camelot they hear of the Storm Stone, a magical object deep in a forest that draws people into a web of love, betrayal and enchantment. Luneta's meddling has real consequences. The novel adapts a twelfth-century romance by Chretien de Troyes.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Squire's Tales
- Series: The Squire's Tales core; position 7 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gerald Morris
Notes
- From the series record (The Squire's Tales): Ten humorous Arthurian novels for young readers, following Terence, Gawain and a changing cast at Camelot.
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 The Squire's Tales: position 7 of 10: previous The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight (2004) · next The Quest of the Fair Unknown (2006)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Gerald Morris
- Biblio listing (hardcover first edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Sept 2005)
- Kirkus Reviews
- BookBrowse
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