A Review By Lulu Minto

‘Merrily’s Border’ is a lovely companion to the Merrily Watkins Series. A guide to the locations, history and legends set against beautiful photography by John Mason, using artistic infra red images to give it’s content an atmospheric feel, with great write ups from Phil on places in and around the borders and places we’ve visited and come to know in his Merrily Watkins novels….

The book starts with a general introduction to the Marches area and to Merrily – Deliverance Consultant for the Hereford Diocese. Each of the 10 novels then has a chapter devoted to it, giving lots of interesting background information.

Apart from everything else this is a great companion to Herefordshire and its surrounding areas, it’s folklore, traditions & mystical happenings.

If you, like me, are reading through the Merrily Watkins series only read this book as far as the last novel you’ve read….. otherwise you may read about things that you don’t want to know as yet!