The harrowing
By: James Aitcheson
Publisher: Heron Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781784297305; 9781784297312; 9781784297329
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Secrecy; Fiction; History
Description: Five strangers. Five secrets. No refuge. No turning back. In the aftermath of 1066, a Norman army marches through the North of England: burning, killing and laying waste to everything in its path. The Harrowing has begun. As towns and villages fall to the invaders, five travellers fleeing the slaughter are forced to band together for survival. Refugees in their own country, they journey through the wasteland, hoping to find sanctuary with the last stand of the Saxon rebellion. But are they fleeing the Normans or their own troubles? Priest, Lady, Servant, Warrior, Minstrel: each has their own story; each their own sin. As enemies past and present close in, their prior deeds catch up with them and they discover there is no sanctuary from fate.