Fen-wolf - Pitt, S.
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'Faint-heartedness ill becomes a fighter who can still stand and wield a weapon - whatever the odds against him.'Edward the Pious is dead and Hereward, estranged son of Eorl Leofric, returns from exile to a land at peace under a new king, Harold Godwineson. After nine years as a mercenary, Hereward expects his fighting days are over but they have only just begun. For the year is 1066 and soon he must take up his sword against a foe set on conquest.S. Pitt brings 11th century England vividly to life in this powerful narrative of the epic struggle between Hereward the Outlaw and the Normans. A…mehr

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'Faint-heartedness ill becomes a fighter who can still stand and wield a weapon - whatever the odds against him.'Edward the Pious is dead and Hereward, estranged son of Eorl Leofric, returns from exile to a land at peace under a new king, Harold Godwineson. After nine years as a mercenary, Hereward expects his fighting days are over but they have only just begun. For the year is 1066 and soon he must take up his sword against a foe set on conquest.S. Pitt brings 11th century England vividly to life in this powerful narrative of the epic struggle between Hereward the Outlaw and the Normans. A man prepared to lose everything rather than submit; an uncompromising leader haunted by his past: Fen-wolf tells how a legend began.
Autorenporträt
S. PITT is a British/Australian writer of long and short, mainly historical, fiction. She has won several awards for her short stories, most recently for Ice-bear which was short-listed for the Historical Novel Society's 2016 Short Story Award and included in the anthology Distant Echoes. Her 'Cli-fi' novel, The Boy Who Found Salt, was short-listed for the 2020 London Book Fair 'The Write Stuff' Competition. Widely travelled, S. Pitt has spent significant parts of her life in remote regions of the world and this is reflected in her work. A recurrent theme in all her writing is the interplay of historical events, landscape and mythology.