All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All

All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well is the story of Burt Hecker, a sixty-three-year-old medieval re-enactor (he dresses in medieval clothes, eats medieval food, thinks medieval thoughts), and his doomed attempt to come to terms with his own history. It is a novel about the different ways in which we perceive the past, and how none of them can ultimately add up to the present. sing the backdrop of the nine-hundredth birthday celebrations of St Hildegard von Bingen, Burt accompanies an anchorite-re-enacting female chant workshop from upstate New York to Rhineland, Germany, only to leave them behind and set off on a modern-day Arthurian quest to rescue his estranged son, Tristan, from Prague. Jumping between times, continents and histories both real and re-enacted, we get to the desperate heart of Burt Hecker, widower and mead-addict, as his losses and crimes accumulate. t the centre of the novel is the re-enaction of the childhood and death of Burt s beloved wife, Kitty, and the juxtaposition between Burt and his arch-enemy and mother-in-law, Anna Bibko an ethnic Lemko, whose own quest to re-establish a Lemko homeland mirrors Burt