This is rather good, in fact a lot better, more thoughtful and interesting than I expected, which is aside from the real qualities of the story and the characters. It engages with the legends and myths of Arthur in a fascinating way, elegaic, celebratory, but wry and humane amidst all the oddness and the wonders. The rag-tag found family survivors of Camelot after the death of Arthur, with the addition of a callow young would-be knight in stolen armour from a far-off island, try to work out what to do next. Will Arthur come back? Is there another king out there waiting to be found? Will God come back after deserting them at the end of the clamitous Grail Quest? Will the fairy lands invade, lead by Morgan Le Fay? Where is Lancelot? Where is Guinevere? Where is Merlin? Through a series of adventures that manage to be fruitless, shambolic and inconclusive, when they're not downright tragic, various answers are revealed. There are stories of fairies, stories of the wonders of God, stories that mix up both, stories of magic. It's all such a muddle, reflecting the muddle of Arthurian lore, yet Grossman cuts a clear narrative path through it all, to a surprisingly triumphant - yet at the same time cconsistently thematically inconclusive - conclusion, until a final moving moment of grace. An unexpectedly affecting love-letter to the once and future king.