This is a wonderful series of books by Liz Williams. The books are set in Somerset, London, and the various Otherworlds that intersect with Britain. The main characters are the four Fallow sisters, who are very interesting. The books are magical and very evocative of the landscape. The author has lived in that area for many years so she really knows the landscape well. I also really enjoyed how the main characters were women.
Book 1: Comet Weather
I absolutely love the Behenian stars, and the Fallow Sisters, and Dark, and the wonderful sense of the Somerset landscape which made me thoroughly homesick to read because Liz Williams described it so perfectly. And the whole plot and style and atmosphere and characters. Exquisite.
It was so delicious that I wanted to eke it out for longer but I also wanted to know what happened next!
Book 2: Blackthorn Winter
The mysteries of London come into this book: Crossbones graveyard, the Winchester Geese, the Mithraeum, and more.
Back in the west, there’s a Green Child and a mysterious meeting at the temple of Nodens in Lydney. There are Border Morris dancers and a Mari Lwyd festival in Chepstow.
And nobody knows which side the Wild Hunt are on.
As in real life, encounters with the supernatural do not always make sense until much later.
But eventually it all comes together and makes a pattern.
Book 3: Embertide
I really enjoyed this book. The world building is excellent and the Fallow Sisters finally start finding out more about the many other-worlds impinging on their reality. Very satisfying, and embedded in the English landscape in a way few other books ever manage to achieve.
Book 4: Salt on the Midnight Fire
A satisfying conclusion to the series, with mysterious plant people, figures from history popping up, and a fair amount of shapeshifting and travel between the worlds.
Dowsing for Divinity 