Dreams of the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn

I really enjoyed reading Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams. I’ve read two of these, The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christi and The Fire Gospel and intend to read them all eventually. Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams is part of the Canongate Myths series. I’d heard of McCall Smith and his famous No I Ladies Detective Agency novels but I had never read him. There were islands, too, with stretches of white sand, and behind the white sand there was the machair, which was made up of meadows on which grew yellow and blue flowers, tiny flowers.ĭream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams is a library book.

The land itself was beautiful, with hills that ran down to the sea, and there were cold green waves that broke on the rocks that marked the edge of the land. The precise location of things was not so important then, as there was just he land and the sea between them, and people came and went between the lands, and they were brothers and sisters. This happened in Ireland, but the memory of it is in Scotland too. Mesmerically weaving together the tales of the Celtic god and the Scottish scientist, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?

In twentieth-century Scotland, Angus’s troubled alter ego searches for his true family and identity a psychotherapist who helps people understand their dreams, his life seems to parallel that of his mythic namesake, until we ask - could they be one and the same? He’s too busy making mischief - stealing the palace of the gods from his father, turning his enemies into pigs etc - until he is trapped by his own romantic games and falls for an unattainable woman, doomed to seek her forever. If he’s in the right mood, divine Angus might grant you sight of your true love in a dream you might even fall in love with him - but he’ll never love you back. TITLE: DREAM ANGUS (THE CELTIC GOD OF DREAMS)

Dreams of the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn