Greek Beasts and Heroes 4: The Dolphin's Message by Lucy Coats

Lucy Coats

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I don't remember when I first knew about my heroine, Hildegarde of Bingen, but it seems as if she's been lurking on the edges of my life forever. Perhaps I met her in the pages of a book my grandmother owned. Gran had many books, and I spent hours as a child, lying on her rough sisal carpet, dipping into their treasure.

I can't pin down just where Hildegarde appeared from, but there she is, dressed in her wimple and robe. I can see her quite clearly in my mind's eye. Maybe it seems strange for me to have a heroine who lived just over 900 years ago. She wouldn't recognize anything about my life. In fact, she'd probably curse me as a witch if she saw me making words this easily on a screen.

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