Called Away

by Perdita Buchan

Jared and Clover - young, in love - follow their hippie dream of rural life to Circe, Vermont. But after only a year in their newly created Eden, Clover meets the mysterious itinerant peddler, Surt Mudspell. Fascinated, Clover follows him through time into the Circe of 1815, where he leaves her. Living the arduous pioneer life she and Jared idealized, Clover discovers a new love but also nature's dark power. When 1816, the legendary year without a summer, arrives she falls prey to the superstitions of Circe's inhabitants. Only Mudspell can save her and return her to her own time.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Perdita Buchan was born in England and came to America as a child. She grew up in Philadelphia and has since lived in London, Florence, Italy, New York and, for many years, New England (Vermont and Massachusetts). She now lives on the Jersey shore. Her essays and short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, House Beautiful, Family Circle and New Jersey Monthly. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including the O. Henry Prize Stories, and her nonfiction book, Utopia, New Jersey, was named an Honor book by The New Jersey Council On The Humanities.

Interests: myth, fairy tale, carousels, horses, utopian communities, classical music, especially piano, England, the Pre Raphaelite/Arts and Crafts Movement, Italy, Romania, the Roma