![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All this changes however when she overhears a hunter in her wood describing her as the last unicorn in the world, and sets out to find out what has become of the rest of her kind. She doesn't think to question anything, because unicorns just are. The unicorn has lived alone longer than she can remember, taking her endless time as it comes, walking beneath the summer trees of her wood, blessing the land with her presence, and occasionally letting herself be glimpsed by mortals. Fortunately, one of the happier consequences for me of the digital revolution is an access to media, both audiobooks and animated, that I hadn't experienced before, so this is a lack we can easily fix, and (as indeed several characters in this book prove), one is never too old for tales about unicorns. After all, as a fantasy loving child of the eighties I should at least have seen the animated film, even if the usual bugbear lack of audio availability, kept me from reading the novel that inspired it. I'm quite honestly surprised I haven't come across Peter S Beagle's The Last Unicorn before now. ![]()
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