You may be interested in my review of another book by Carol McGrath, THE STONE ROSE. She is also the author of The Woman in the Shadows, a 2017 novel about Elizabeth, the wife of England’s Thomas Cromwell.
I may just skips some of the details.Ĭarol McGrath is an Irish writer. I still plan to read the second and third books in this series ( The Swan-Daughter and The Betrothed Sister) because I always need to know how a story plays out. But it detracted from the overall enjoyment of the read for me. I’m sure this kind of detail about meals, travel, clothing, and customs would be gobbled up by some. On the other hand, there are places where I was completely bored by tedious detail about the everyday lives of the time period. And that was interesting to me since so much of England’s history is so often pro-Norman. This novel focuses on Edith, the handfasted (married but not by Christian clergy) wife of Harold Godwin who was briefly King of England after the death of Edward the Confessor.Įdith’s relationship with Godwin, their children, and their collective fates are portrayed through a pro-Anglo Saxon, anti-Norman lens. Though William is a peripheral character in this novel, his shadow obviously hangs over the book since it covers the years surrounding the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Daughters of Hastings Books In Publication Order The Handfasted Wife (2013) The Swan-Daughter (2014) The Betrothed Sister (2015) The Rose Trilogy Books In. I picked up this book intentionally because, though I’ve read a lot of historical fiction, I had never read any about William the Conquerer. Most likely you have knowledge that, people have see numerous times for their favorite books when this The Handfasted.
Interesting period, but WAY too much detail for me.
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