![]() ![]() I may have been just about the ideal reader for The Temptation of Dragons. They need to work past their differences, not only to be an effective team, but to find the commonalities that bond them. Her gryphon companion has his demons, too. Penny has her own tragedies she may be too dependent on her single-malt, and she’s lonely. ![]() But behind the light-hearted fantasy is a story about frailty, love and forgiveness. I found myself laughing out loud many times while reading The Temptation of Dragons. Asked to take on a significant position liaising between our world and this other one, with a gryphon as her assistant, Penny accepts, to find herself not only caught up in a murder inquiry, but attracted to the ultimate bad boy, the James Dean of dragons.Ĭhrys Cymri writes with a deft, light hand, a fine sense of pacing, and an ear for comedy. One night she finds herself at a vehicular accident, giving last rites to a….dragon? This act of compassion is Penny’s introduction to the parallel world of fantastic creatures that exists alongside our own, a world where St George is the dragon, not the knight. ![]() Penny White is the vicar of a small parish in Northamptonshire. ![]() While this might sound like a round of Only Connect, the actual answer is that they are all integral aspects of Chrys Cymri’s delightful book Penny White and The Temptation of Dragons. What do these have in common? Single-malt whisky, Doctor Who, dragons, Northamptonshire, the Church of England. ![]()
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