Ysabel is the tenth novel by Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay. It was first published in January 2007 by Viking Canada. It is Kay's first urban fantasy and his first book set outside his fantasied Europe milieu since the publication of his first three novels in the 1980s (The Fionavar Tapestry).
Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.
The past and the present are closely intertwined in Y...
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Ysabel is the tenth novel by Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay. It was first published in January 2007 by Viking Canada. It is Kay's first urban fantasy and his first book set outside his fantasied Europe milieu since the publication of his first three novels in the 1980s (The Fionavar Tapestry).
Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.
The past and the present are closely intertwined in Ysabel. 15-year-old Ned Marriner discovers his magical heritage while staying with his photographer father in Provence. After he meets an American exchange student, the two become involved in an ancient "story" of love, sacrifice, and magic unfolding in the present day, which soon draws in Ned's family and friends.
Ned Marriner is in France with his father, Edward, a celebrated photographer who is working on a book about Provence. While his father shoots outside the deserted Saint-Sauveur Cathedral, Ned wanders in to look around. There he meets...
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