num_pages: 576
description: January 1067. Charismatic bishop Odo of Bayeux commissions a wall hanging, on a scale never seen before, to celebrate the conquest of Britain by his brother, William, Duke of Normandy. What he cannot anticipate is how utterly this will change his life-even more than the invasion itself.His life becomes entangled with the women who embroider his hanging, especially Gytha-handmaiden to the fallen Saxon queen and his sworn enemy. But against their intentions, they fall helplessly in love. Friends become enemies, enemies become lovers; nothing in life or in the hanging is what it seems.
language: English
title: The Needle in the Blood
titlecomplete: The Needle in the Blood
genres: Romance, British Literature, Historical Romance, 11th Century, Historical, Fiction, France, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Medieval
ratings_count: 548
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Snowbooks