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AT THE KINGDOMS’ FOLD Therese Caruana is well-known for her gripping fantasy novels, but this time she’s taken a slightly different approach, as she recruits her mother as co-author! BY SOPHIE CLIFTON-TUCKER What prompted the writing of your new novel – At the Kingdoms’ Fold? One early morning, my mother called me on Skype and she was very excited. Having always been my biggest supporter, but not interested in writing fantasy books herself, she was eager to tell me about the entire book she had dreamt up during the night. She told me the story and I thought it was compelling and said that we should make it into a book. It has been a wonderful collaboration and a lovely mother and daughter bonding project that I will remember for the rest of my life. What’s it about? The book is about a vengeful king 64
seeking his lost bride; the Queen of the magical Vrasur People who is in hiding since they day they were to be married. The king keeps slaughtering anyone who isn’t her, swearing he will find her. The main protagonists are Liam and Kate who are trying to fight for the people of their Duchy. Liam’s father, Lord Gauff, also has some help from the ghost-like people who are said to live in the Cave of Mercy at the Kingdoms’ Fold and who take the liberty of punishing criminals by taking the law into their own hands. The King’s army is getting stronger and is coming closer to their doorstep and everyone prays that the prophecy of the seventh daughter’s seventh daughter will be realized and save them all. In the pivotal time and in the
greatest hour to behold, the seventh daughter’s seventh daughter will unfold. Although, hope is frail as the High Priestess’ family whose lineage would give birth to the seventh daughter’s seventh daughter has since long been murdered. Where did the idea for the plot stem from? My mother is an ancestry researcher and she has always like films like Braveheart and Outlander so it is safe to say that the combination of those two elements triggered the inspiration for this story. Her hobbies go hand in hand with the medieval times and the sword & sorcery GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020
