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de Barbara Erskine
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de Susanna Kearsley
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de Susanna Kearsley
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Historian and university lecturer Viv Lloyd Rees resigns from her university post when the BBC express interest in making a programme based on her book on Cartimandua, Celtic queen of the Brigantes and peer of Boudicca. Together with biographer Kate Kennedy and actress Pat Taylor, she forms ‘Daughters of Fire’, a company dedicated to making dramas about women who have made history on their own terms. But the three women soon discover that tension exists between them as they travel to the Pennines – where Cartimandua lived – for inspiration and research. Slowly and inexorably, Cartimandua begins to take them over. Pat deliberately courts her memory, trying to put herself into the warrior queen’s shoes, Viv searches for archaeological evidence, while Kate fights a growing realisation that the spirit of Cartimandua is not at rest. As Cartimandua’s presence becomes more and more real, Pat’s hold on reality begins to waver and ancient rivalries reverberate against modern ones…
About the Author
Barbara Erskine is the author of the internationally best-selling novel ‘LADY OF HAY’, which was translated into a dozen languages and has sold over a million copies world wide. This was followed by another best-seller, KINGDOM OF SHADOWS and by a collection of short stories ENCOUNTER, which has met with wide popular acclaim.
‘CHILD OF THE PHOENIX’ is based on the story of one of Barbara Erskine ‘s own ancestors, and provides a link between some of the characters from LADY OF HAY and KINGDOM OF SHADOWS, again encapsulating the authors dual themes of the supernatural and of history.
In the absorbing world of the historical novel, readers of Barbara Erskine are held in thrall. ‘CHILD OF THE PHOENIX’ is set in the turbulent 13th century and tells of Eleyne, a Welsh princess whose life becomes inextricably linked with the destinies of the English, Welsh and Scottish crowns. The story is partly based on lore passed down through the author’s family – for Eleyne is one of her distant ancestors. But as Barbara Erskine points out: “Eleyne is a composite, based on family legend of the type which converts dingy oil paintings into Rembrandts and Victorian paste beads into aquamarines.”
A history graduate, and with one of her two earlier best-sellers set in much the same period, Barbara Erskine is well versed in the brutality of the Middle Ages. It was a time when noblewomen underwent arranged marriages, were traded both for their dowries and to cement the precarious political alliances of their male relatives. Despite their precarious social standing, women did hold power with their husbands away in Parliament or at war. More sinister was the manipulation of those who became involved in illicit romances – the dangerous truth would be concealed until it could be used to advantage.
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