description: The flight of the swans from her manor home would strike her family with disaster, Lionor’s nurse predicted, and Lionor finds the prophecy sadly true when her father offends King John, and is hunted down by cruel vengeance.She is forced to leave her childhood behind her, given like a chattel into the hands of her father's enemy, and is helpless to rebel. Threatened by the corruption of courtly society, shocked by the ugliness beneath the mask, she moves through troubled years of war with France, civil war and an unhappy love, only to find peace and stability again when the swans return at last, to sleep on the quiet waters of the manor.
language: English
title: The Flight of the Swan
publisher: Robert Hale Ltd