Description

Occur late fourteenth-century England, Vanora Bennettis rich, remarkable new book provides an England uncannily like our very own. The nation is in chaos, The Master is with debt to the Town, and the old-order had divided - a period of possibility certainly, for the moment can be seized by those who. The master's mistress, Alice Perrers, becomes the personal leader of the nation from his sickbed. Hated and resented by the Black Prince and his cronies, her robust contacts to the retailers make her an all natural ally for the masteris formidable second child, John of Gaunt.Together they produce a powerful place within the town for one of is own henchmen, Geoffrey Chaucer.