The Song and the Sword
by Isabelle Chevallot
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Pub Date 29 Sep 2022 | Archive Date 15 Mar 2023
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Description
A medieval romantic adventure:
In twelfth-century England, King Richard the Lionheart has just ascended the throne, and preparations are underway for the Third Crusade to wrest the Holy Land from Saladin's clutches.
Young lovers Eleanor and Hugh are thwarted by their fathers. While Eleanor is married off to Baron Rolf, a man who simmers with menace and will stop at nothing in his bid for power, Hugh trains to become a knight and embarks on Crusade to escape an arranged marriage to a woman he despises.
From the stark walls of Dover Castle, to the sanctuary of an austere priory and across tempest-swept seas to Normandy and the prosperous city of Messina, Sicily, Eleanor and Hugh must each brave a lonely and perilous journey of love and loss, grief and endurance with only their own wits to rely on.
Advance Praise
The Song and the Sword received an Honourable Mention in the Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year Awards for 2022.
[Isabelle Chevallot] has created a wonderfully evocative novel…
The Song and the Sword is a masterful piece of historical writing with some excellent depictions of period and characterisation, and a fast-moving plot…. [An] accessible and enjoyable read with a great balance of romance and action that would appeal to both male and female readers alike.
Frances Moloney, Freelance Editor, Writer & Literary Consultant
The Song and the Sword would certainly appeal to those who enjoy good, old-fashioned romantic swashbucklers in the Rafael Sabatini mould (Captain Blood, Scaramouche etc.) … some very deft descriptive writing, too… a strong sensual experience of time and place...
[Isabelle Chevallot has] a rare talent for what in a footballer would be expressed as the ability to ‘hold up the ball’, the confidence to sustain the tension and the readers sense of anticipation without any notable lack of momentum, such that the reader keeps on turning the pages.
Ed Handyside, Publishing Director Myrmidon Books
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781999591083 |
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