Although she has a gift tinged with magic, her strengths in healing, gardening, and potion-brewing are not too different than what we could expect from a highborn woman from pre-historical Ireland, making her abilities seem realistic and achievable. Sorcha, a healer, gains much of her power through her ability to communicate with the Fair Folk and her respect for the natural order of the forest. In a country almost entirely untouched by Christianity, the magic of druids, the Fair Folk, and prophecies flows through the land.
Set in an ancient version of Ireland called Erin, Daughter of the Forest shows modern readers a world that many have never seen before. World-building: Marillier writes in a genre known as “historical fantasy” because her novels combine thorough research with fantasy elements. My thoughts: I’ll break my comments into three sections: world-building, characterization, and adaptation of the original story. With this monumental task ahead of her, Sorcha embarks on the greatest journey of her lifetime. Her task is to sew six shirts of stinging nettle without ever speaking a word, or telling anyone her story.
Scared and alone for the first time in her life, young Sorcha makes a pact with the Lady of the Forest to save her brothers.
When her father re-marries the mysterious Lady Oonagh, she takes over Sevenwaters, and determined to install her son as heir, Lady Oonagh uses her dark magic to change the children into swans, with only Sorcha escaping unharmed into the forest. Synopsis: The only daughter of Irish lord Colum of Sevenwaters, Sorcha, gifted in healing, is raised with loving care by her six older brothers.
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