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A Year of Ravens

A Novel of Boudica's Rebellion

Eliza Knight author Ruth Downie author Russell Whitfield author Simon Turney author Kate Quinn author Stephanie Dray author Vicky Alvear author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Published:29th Aug '24

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From seven bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a gripping and vividly imagined novel following an epic struggle of rebellion against the might of Rome.

Britannia: land of mist and magic clinging to the western edge of the Roman Empire. A red-haired queen named Boudica led her people in a desperate rebellion against the might of Rome, an epic struggle destined to consume heroes and cowards, young and old, Roman and Briton . . . and these are their stories.

A calculating queen foresees the fires of rebellion in a king’s death.

A neglected slave girl seizes her own courage as Boudica calls for war.

An idealistic tribune finds manhood in a brutal baptism of blood and slaughter.

A death-haunted Druid challenges the gods themselves to ensure victory for his people.

A conflicted young warrior finds himself torn between loyalties to tribe and to Rome.

An old champion struggles for everlasting glory in the final battle against the legions.

A pair of fiery princesses fight to salvage the pieces of their mother’s dream as the ravens circle.

A novel in seven parts, overlapping stories of warriors and peacemakers, queens and slaves, Romans and Britons who cross paths during Boudica’s epic rebellion. But who will survive to see the dawn of a new Britannia, and who will fall to feed the ravens?

“Original and ingenious…The attention to historic detail is superb…an extremely well-written read.” — Historical Novel Society on Day of Fire

ISBN: 9780063310605

Dimensions: 203mm x 135mm x 32mm

Weight: 406g

560 pages