Like its champion Simon de Montfort, the People’s Charter lies dead and broken under the harsh heel of England’s new king, Edward, and only in Llewelyn’s troubled Wales does the light of liberty flicker on.
Yet it is no easy task to guard the flame from the threatening storms. Llewelyn’s beloved bride, Ellen, Simon’s daughter, first disowned, dispossessed and exiled, is then imprisoned at Edward’s pleasure. Edward himself, his power formidable, his vengeance unrelenting and his honour expedient, burns for a mastery that brooks no denial. And his own thrice-treacherous brother Davydd, too late pledging his loyalty to Wales above himself, would force Llewelyn to a war he cannot win, and must not lose …
Concluding her magnificent sequence of novelt on the death throes of independent Wales, Sharon Penman evokes all the passion and politics, divided loyalties and abiding faiths, of the thirteenth-century world in a story of tarnished splendour, doomed hopes – and enduring hearts.
Raamatu seisukord jätab soovida, kaaned kulunud, murdejäljed kaanel, lehed pruunid.
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