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Posted by Jasmine on 1 February 2012 | 0 Comments

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The wild hunt Elizabeth Chadwick



Picture the Welsh Marches in the years after the Conqueror’s death. It is not a pretty sight. The Welsh are constantly fighting against their English oppressors to push them out of Wales. This is where marriage steps in. Fifteen-year-old Judith of Ravenstow is to be married to Guyon of Ledworth, a man who is a decade older than Judith and whose lands are under threat. Despite being married, they could not be more different.

The king, William Rufus, sits precariously on the throne and political forces could tear them apart. But Judith and Guyon are forced to work together when factors such as war threaten to tear them apart. It gets even worse when a dark secret from the past is revealed and it really becomes a question of will they or won't they?

This won Elizabeth Chadwick the 1990 Betty Trask award when she wrote it, and it is a fabulous piece of historical fiction that has been republished recently. It is the first in the Ravenstow Trilogy, followed by The running vixen, then The leopard unleashed. I highly recommend it; it was so good that I read The running vixen straight after!