The Light Beyond the Forest

Camelot has reached the height of its fame when the vision of the Holy Grail calls Arthur’s knights away from the fellowship of the Round Table. Lancelot, Galahad, Bors and Percival undertake journeys in which martial ability is less important than humility, faith and freedom from the failures that have shaped their earlier lives.

The quest scatters the company and exposes divisions that courtly glory had concealed. Only a few knights can approach the Grail, and even success carries them beyond ordinary life and service to Arthur. Sutcliff retells the medieval romance as the spiritual centre of her Arthurian trilogy, where the search for perfection both illuminates and begins to dissolve the worldly brotherhood Camelot represents.