The crimson chalice
By: Victor Canning
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444812077
Subjects: Arthurian romances; Adaptations; Fiction; Kings and rulers; Britons
Description: When a party of marauding Saxons destroy her father's villa, young Roman girl Gratia, 'Tia' escapes. She comes upon the body of the heir to the chieftanship of a British tribe in the west. Baradoc, a prisoner of Phoenician traders, was sold as a slave and is also escaping the Saxons. However, after being attacked he was left for dead by his cousin, the next heir. Tia nurses him back to health, and they continue together to the safety of her uncle's villa in Aquae Sulis. Their son, Arturo, inherits his father's desire for uniting Britain against the Saxons.
Notes: Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1976.