This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. It goes through  Mythago Wood  by Robert Holdstock considering how it engages with war on a personal and family level, how it plays with ideas of time as something fluid and disturbing, and how it presents mythology as something crude and dangerous. The book places  Mythago Wood  in the context of Holdstock's other works, noting in part how complex ideas of time have been a consistent element in his fiction. The book also briefly examines how the themes laid out in  Mythago Wood  are carried through into later books in the sequence as well as the Merlin Codex