When the noble Walter impulsively decides to test the affections of Alysoun by telling her that he is a banished man, she unexpectedly agrees to share his banishment and become an outlaw at his side. And then they meet Robin Hood... not the jolly lad bent on skylarking nor the philanthropic hero they had heard so many tales of, but a true outlaw of the Middle Ages - an outcast: brave, cruel, simple and cunning and urged on by a violent hatred of society, contemptuously viewing the world through the diminishing glass of his own colossal vanity. The author is the son of Australian artist and author Norman Lindsay.