The backstory of the novel “The Pillars of the Earth”!
A bestseller according to The New York Times and Amazon’s best book of 2020.
Year 997 Anno Domini.
The Dark Ages on the continent are coming to an end, yet in Britain the very existence of the English nation is at stake…
Warriors of militant Welsh Celts invade from the west. The north is repeatedly drenched in blood by merciless Scandinavian Viking raids. Right is might. Sword and spear become the only law. Everyone survives as best they can.
This is the world in which the heroes must live: a young Saxon shipbuilder searching for his place in the sun, whose family was driven out by Vikings; a noble Norman beauty, preparing with her husband to enter a deadly struggle for wealth and power; and an educated monk obsessed with turning his humble abbey into one of Europe’s great centers of knowledge and culture.
This is their story—grand and gripping, brutal and mesmerizing.