num_pages: 721
description: In King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland. Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue. He calls himself Thorfinn but his Christian name is Macbeth.Dunnett depicts Macbeth's transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself.
language: English
title: King Hereafter
titlecomplete: King Hereafter
characters: Macbeth, Gruoch of Scotland
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Scotland, Literature, Medieval, Novels, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, 11th Century
ratings_count: 2165
places: Scotland
publisher: Vintage