King's Mercy
Published on 18. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-80381-062-1 (ISBN)
Description
At the opening of this story, a group of farmers market traders a clothier have all survived the Peasant's Revolt, yet still feel threatened by the young king's revenge.
A poor widow lost her husband and son in the violence, a farmer's son from White Clyffe swept up in the excitement was arrested in Salisbury at the height of the rebellion and has not been seen since, a clothier abandoned his established business near Bridgewater fearing suspicion of involvement, conspiracy.
Their lives, loves and fears are explored among the villages and towns of the West of England. The story moves from rural Wiltshire to the rapidly industrialising city of Salisbury, commercial activity in the Severn Estuary and an escape to Honfleur in France.
A poor widow lost her husband and son in the violence, a farmer's son from White Clyffe swept up in the excitement was arrested in Salisbury at the height of the rebellion and has not been seen since, a clothier abandoned his established business near Bridgewater fearing suspicion of involvement, conspiracy.
Their lives, loves and fears are explored among the villages and towns of the West of England. The story moves from rural Wiltshire to the rapidly industrialising city of Salisbury, commercial activity in the Severn Estuary and an escape to Honfleur in France.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Claygate
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80381-062-1 (9781803810621)
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Colin Fletcher was born in Wales and educated in England. He went to East Africa in 1947, farmed for four years in Kenya, and later surveyed and built a road over a virgin mountain in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In the 1950's he crossed the Atlantic and prospected-among other pursuits-in northern and western Canada. In 1956 he moved south to California, where he wrote The Thousand- mile Summer, The Man Who Walked Through Time, The Complete Walker (and its revision, The New Complete Walker}, and The Winds of Mara.