Corbenic by Catherine Fisher    
Published by Red Fox

Cal, consumed with bitterness and loathing towards his alcoholic mother, leaves her to start his life afresh at his Uncle’s. Half asleep, he stumbles off the train at what he thought was his stop only to discover too late, he’s stranded at “Corbenic”. From there he meets the Fisher King and his real journey or ‘quest’ begins – his struggle over lying and covering up the shame of his alcoholic mother, his obsession with order and neatness and, his foolish longing to buy happiness with money … throughout all of which the Grail, Arthur and his Company, medieval battles/re-enactments are spun.

A fantastic, gripping re-working of the search for the Grail in a contemporary setting with New Age travellers who are not all they seem ... A must for anyone fascinated by the Grail Legend.