Camelot Vine, Petrea Burchard
Camelot Vine, Petrea Burchard
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Camelot & Vine
A Novel

Author: Petrea Burchard

Narrator: Petrea Burchard

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 05/28/2024

Synopsis

Casey Clemens is having a bad day. And it’s going to get worse.It’s the day before Casey’s fortieth birthday and Hollywood doesn’t want her anymore (not that it ever did). Her career and personal life are a disaster. Frantic to escape her own emptiness, she hops on a plane to England and heads to the countryside to hide. But she can’t hide from herself.A lightning strike, a skidding car, and a horse that might be magical send her through a gap in time to the Dark Ages, where she inadvertently saves King Arthur from Saxon warriors. Mistaken for a wizard, she goes from prisoner to friend to confidante of the King and of his young wife, Guinevere, earning the enmity of powerful men. Surrounded by enemies, caught up in a love triangle, and secretly attracted to the king, she’ll need more than a magic horse to get herself back to the twenty-first century.A delightful intersection of contemporary fiction and historical novel, Camelot & Vine is a funny, bittersweet tale of friendship, love, and betrayal through the eyes of a woman who is lost in the present and finds her true self in the past.

About Petrea Burchard

Petrea Burchard is an author, actor, and audiobook narrator. Camelot & Vine was nominated for the 2023 Society of Voice Arts (SOVAS) award for author narration. Other publications include articles, short stories, and the book of comic essays, Act As If: Stumbling Through Hollywood with Headshot in Hand. Check her out at petreaburchard.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Petrea on May 02, 2023

I was inspired to write "Camelot & Vine" one summer when I traveled to England to study acting at Oxford. I felt privileged to be there and to study with fine teachers in such a beautiful place. I also felt lonely. When the Oxford course was over, I had a little time to play tourist. One place I visi......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on November 16, 2016

Reviewed by Katherine Williams for Readers' Favorite Camelot & Vine by Petrea Burchard is a blend of historical fiction and science fiction. Casey Clemens, a 39-year-old actress, seems to have it all: a solid career, a famous (but also married) boyfriend, and a life in Hollywood. The day before she t......more

Goodreads review by Ann on March 18, 2016

Just when you think you've read every book, seen every movie and heard every legend about King Arthur's Camelot, along comes Petrea Burchard's novel "Camelot & Vine" with a fresh new twist that engages the reader from the first page to the last. The "Vine" in the title refers to Hollywood, where Cas......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on July 01, 2023

This fun fantasy grabbed me in the first paragraph. From a firm foundation in present-day Los Angeles, the narrative whips us into King Arthur's Court, but oh so different from the Lerner & Loewe version. All the reader's sensed are engaged, which makes the story gripping and oddly credible. "What i......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on March 10, 2013

What a fun read! Part time travel, part historical fiction, part romance, this novel traces one woman's journey back into the time of Camelot, which turns out to be less of idyllic fantasyland and more of a rough-hewn, dangerous outpost. (That's the historical fiction, part, and I might add that it......more

Quotes

“Camelot and Vine gives listeners exactly what they want: an unlikely fish-out-of-water heroine, page-turner pacing, impeccably researched historical details, mythical characters made wonderfully human, and all of it punctuated by moments of unexpected humor and pathos. Petrea Burchard’s capable narration voice is matched only by her authorial one—and both shine like Excalibur.” Julia Whelan, author of Thank You for Listening

“A delightful fall into Arthurian legend. Author/narrator Petrea Burchard paints this time-slip tale with vibrant characters and complex hues of wit and humor. Burchard’s attention to detail is notable, with a sweeping range of historical references and accents. In Casey Clemens, readers and listeners will find a relatable protagonist who, in a quest to escape Hollywood, lands in the Dark Ages amidst a turmoil of knights, knaves, kings, and kismet. King Arthur has never been so entertaining.” Sara Sheckells, audiobook narrator

“Funny, suspenseful, and poignant. The story is inventive and the writing is lovely. Casey is a likeable protagonist, easy to relate to and pull for as she encounters the figures she knows from legend and discovers that encountering them in the flesh, before their lives become the stuff of history, is an entirely different thing. Love, adventure, danger, and a well-drawn historical setting contribute to making this a book you’ll want to curl up with and read again when you’ve finished.” Gilliam Bagwell, author of Venus in Winter

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