Book description
A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be
written by one of our favourite historical novelists.
In mid seventeenth-century England, the nation was in upheaval. In the
Dorset countryside, one sunlit afternoon, a young girl - illicitly
bathing in a stream - first fell in love with a passing stranger. Her
parents called her Dorcas, but he called her Campion and that's what she
longed to be, then and forever.
She had one gift left for her by her unknown father - a pendant made of
gold, banded by tiny glowing stones and at its base was a seal engraved
with an axe and the words: St Matthew. So when she flees before the
unbearable, worthy suitor who is forced upon her after her forbidden
meeting, she takes this and the delicate lace gloves with her, and hopes
to find her father, and her lover.
There are four of these intricately wrought seals - each owned by a
stranger, each holding a secret within. And when all four seals are
united, then the holder will have access to great wealth and power. That
is Campion's inheritance.
But to claim this and find again her summer love, she must follow the
course her father's legacy charts for her. It is a road full of both
peril and enchantment.
A Crowning Mercy was first published in 1983 under the name Susannah
Kells. It has been out of print for 10 years. HarperCollins are
delighted to be able to re-publish it. Bernard Cornwell was born in
London, raised in Essex, and now lives mainly in the USA with his wife.
In addition to the hugely successful Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell is
the author of the Starbuck Chronicles, the Warlord trilogy, the Grail
Quest series, the Alfred series and standalone battle books Azincourt
and The Fort.
