Shadows and Strongholds
By (Author) Elizabeth Chadwick
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
11th June 2013
31st January 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
592
Width 165mm, Height 198mm, Spine 40mm
412g
An awkward misfit, nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Once there, he begins to learn the knightly arts which he desperately hopes will free him from the shadows of his past.
Joscelin's youngest daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass, an enemy to Ludlow changes their friendship unalterably, forcing them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide.When the menace to Ludlow intensifies, Fulke must confront the future head on or fail on all counts, all the while desperate to know if Hawise stands with or against him."The best writer of medieval fiction currently around."---"Historical Novel Review"
Much of Elizabeth Chadwick's research is carried out as a member of Regia Anglorum, an early mediaeval re-enactment society with emphasis on accurately re-creating the past. She also tutors in the skill of writing historial and romantic fiction. She won a Betty Trask Award for THE WILD HUNT and has been shortlisted for the RNA Awards three times.