Elizabeth Poynter worked in China, Germany and Japan before returning to lecture in English for Academic Purposes and Linguistics at a UK university. She has had a lifelong interest in history, and has previously published a history of human hygiene. She has also written fiction in other genres, before returning to historical fiction with this book. Her research focus is on gender and language, and she is a keen advocate of gender equality.
Helike is married to a Roman centurion and lives in the military camp at York, far from her original home in the south of France. Aldith is a Saxon blacksmith’s daughter whose peaceful childhood is disrupted by the Viking attack on the city. Johanna is a widow mourning her only son, who died fight...
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