The Reckoning - Softcover

Penman, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140113258 ISBN 13: 9780140113259

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with Here be Dragons, continued with Falls the Shadow and is now completed with The Reckoning. The major figures in The Reckoning are the splendid dominant King of England, Edward I, and The Great Llewellyn II, Prince of Wales. His long love affair and eventual marriage with Ellen, daughter of Simon De Montfort, provides the strong emotional interest in the book, while the political machinations of Edward against the Welsh and the Scots, together with Llewellyn's struggle to control the recalcitrant Welsh Princes provides the political and military drama.

About this title

Review:

"A first-rate historical novel." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Packed with bold adventure, high romance, and large characters whose acts of bravery, self-sacrifice, brutality and treachery are part of history." --James Goldman, author of The Lion in Winter

"Full of brawling and plotting, murder and revenge and betrayal. . . . Another triumph for Penman." --The Seattle Times

About the Author:

Sharon Penman is one of the most popular historical novelists writing today. Her bestselling story of Richard III, The Sunne in Splendour, was published in 1982 and her acclaimed Welsh trilogy, Here Be Dragons, Falls the Shadow and The Reckoning, was similarly successful. Time and Chance is the second in a trilogy that opened with When Christ and His Saints Slept (1994). Sharon Penman has travelled widely on both sides of the Atlantic researching her work. She lives in New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140113258
• ISBN 13: 9780140113259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592