Three strangers meet in a nameless desert and must come to terms with their past before they can escape it: a First World War airman; an American aviatrix of the Thirties; and a French poet of the skies from the Second World War. They are the lost of history and must go into the desert to find themselves. To find peace they must walk the burning path. Each is forced to confront the question: What are you prepared to sacrifice for the one you love?
Cover art by Steve Hambidge
The Burning Path – The Windsmith Elegy Vol. 4
FICTION
‘The desert metaphor and imagery are especially striking as the setting for their ordeals … doubtless as Manwaring worked on the book while writer-in-residence at El Gouna, Egypt, on the Red Sea coast.’
Geoff Ward, Mysterious Planet
‘His writing extends the reader in the direction of selfhood – that quality that constitutes one’s individuality – and reminds us of the limitations of everyday consciousness, but also of how it may be expanded to satisfy the deepest callings of human need. He sees broadly and with compassion.’Suite 101
‘Kevan Manwaring writes in the bardic tradition of English prose, one which honours the vision of our landscape as sacred ground and knows that our lives and history are at their most intense when lived in close relation to its claims on the soul.’Lindsay Clarke
