The Great Wheel

Tredana #3

by Joyce Ballou Gregorian

With no memory of her previous visits to the magical realm of Tredana, Sibby, known as the Batur Subi, finds herself fighting against her daughter, husband, and lover

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy

308 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1987

About the author

Joyce Ballou Gregorian was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third child of the noted oriental rug dealer and expert Arthur T. Gregorian, an Armenian immigrant, and Phebe Ballou, of New England descent. She graduated from Beaver Country Day School in 1963, attended Edinburgh University for one year and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in 1968. She then taught English for one year at the Iran Bethel School in Tehran. After that she joined the family business and became it's president. She married John Hampshire in 1986 and died in 1991 in Boston, Massachusetts, at Massachusetts General Hospital, after a long battle with cancer.

Reviews

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the third in a trilogy by a women who was primarily a carpet trader and a lover of Arabian horses. A very interesting series about a girl from our world who travels into a magical one. The difference between this and a lot of other books with a similar concept is the heroine ages a lot between boooks. In the first book she is 13/14, the second in her early 20s and in the last she is in her late 30s I believe. The truly marvelous part is she acts her age in each book and makes decisions that make sense based on her age.

Also another interesting aside was in the 90s I was reading an article on how some authord, even if they aren't well known, hardly ever end up in a used book store because people who have them refuse to part with them. This author was specificly mentioned and I agree.

[Atiana · Rating 5 out of 5]

The last one of the books I loved most, it's the most amazing i think, because everything comes to an end - but completely different as one thought before. Love it. I think, I've read it now 10 times.

[Arlene Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading and LOVING the first two in this series more than 6 years prior to the release of this book, this was a tiny bit of a letdown. :( I did enjoy it, but it didn't end quite the way I wanted it to.

[Tina Dyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book 3 in the series. A divorcee, Sibby again slips accidentally between worlds, and becomes involved in a barbarian invasion reminiscent of that of the Huns circa 500.