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Name: Tam Lin

Author: Pamela Dean
Year: 1991
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Popularity: 3.8
Genres/categories: Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal

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ISBN:
9780613923217
9780812544503
0613923219
0812544501
In the ancient Scottish ballad Tam Lin, headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover's body and soul.

In this version of Tam Lin Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university where her father teaches, and Tam Lin is a boy named Thomas Lane. The book is set against the backdrop of the early 1970s.
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