Book description
The year is 1348 and the first plague victim has reached English
shores. Panic erupts around the country and a small band of travellers
comes together to outrun the deadly disease, unaware that something
far more deadly is -in fact - travelling with them.
The ill-assorted company - a scarred trader in holy relics, a
conjurer, two musicians, a healer and a deformed storyteller - are all
concealing secrets and lies. And at their heart is the strange, cold
child - Narigorm - who reads the runes.
But as law and order breaks down across the country and the battle
for survival becomes ever more fierce, Narigorm mercilessly compels
each of her fellow travellers to reveal the truth ... and each in turn
is driven to a cruel and unnatural death.
Karen Maitland lives in Lincolnshire and is the author of
The
White Room
, which won an Author's Club Best First Novel Award.
