Hinkle, Don

Two sheepfarmers and their sheepdogs engage in a year-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep - a battle which must end in death.

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

Relates how Arthur became a king, married Guinevere, and suffered his downfall through treachery.