Book description
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away
from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy
genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two
men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition,
love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and
war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other
will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of
the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And
always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing
they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. n Follett's masterful epic
The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its
compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the
building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to
medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children
of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical
change.
