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I seem to be on a "first novel" kick - both writing and reading. This is Charles de Lint's first novel, which has been out of print for a while. de Lint says in the author notes that this isn't the first book he wrote, but the first book he started, and that he had written seven different versions of it.
Like Pat Murphy's The Shadow Hunter, it was reprinted several years after its first publication as a hardcover limited edition, and he was "pleased to find it in the seeds of themes he's still exploring in my work to this day."
I really was impressed by the depth of the world he created - language, race names (erlkin, etc) travelling between worlds by tracing symbols on henge stones - it reads like it is a book in a long-established series.
And the main character's journey to really find out who she is and how she's supposed to accomplish what seems to be an impossible quest, resonates with me as well.
Also, when browsing around on his site and that of his wife, Maryann Harris, I found this account of how they met (it's the foreword to a collection of the yearly Christmas stories that he writes for her each year). It seems so random that people so compatible meet so randomly.
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