The Winter Mantle
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780751529586 (0751529583)
ASIN: 0751529583
Publish date: 2002-10-03
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Medieval,
Historical Romance,
Fiction,
Historical,
11th Century
Are all the females in Chadwick's novels as infuriating as Adelaide, Judith, and Matilda? Good grief! If not for the men, I would have chucked this novel less than 100 pages in.
The Winter Mantle begins in 1067 after The Conquest as Waltheof of Huntingdon and several other English nobles are kept under William's close eye in Normandy. Waltheof desires William's haughty niece Judith and is torn between making his peace with William and pressing suit for her hand or participa...