Product Description

AD 57: much of Britannia has been under Roman occupation for over ten years, with key areas in the south and east administered as vassal states, where the tribes pay costly tithes to the Emperor in return for the right to continue living on their own lands. On the sacred isle of Mona, the Boudica or Bringer of Victory as Breaca has long been hailed, now knows for certain that her lover, Caradoc - betrayed, captured and kept hostage in Rome - will never return to her. She decides to leave Mona where she and her warriors have been waging a guerilla war, and to take the fight to the Eceni heartland where it is needed most. With her are her children, Cunomar and Grainne, and her best friend from childhood, ex-lover and dreamer, Airmid. But the once proud Eceni are a downtrodden and defeated people who are forbidden on pain of death to worship their old gods, and who now scrape a living from the once fertile land. Across the sea in Hibernia, Breaca's half-brother Ban, is struggling to make peace with his fractured past. Soon, provoked by Roman aggression, he will sail to Britain to protect Mona, and from there he will go to Camulodinum, where once more united, he and Breaca will face down the might of Rome in the bloodiest revolt the western world has ever known.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #285697 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 409 pages

Norfolk Journal
'This mesmerising story creates a living past of battle feats, betrayals, heart-breaking loyalties and cruelties.'

Focus
Breathtaking work that’s likely to be remembered for years to come.

Publishers Weekly
Scott has teased a few facts from the ancient record to create an absorbing story from history and myth.

Customer Reviews

Better return to form - great book
It took me a long time to get to this after the great disappointment of "Dreaming the Bull".
Dreaming the hound focuses on the Boudica - where the main story should have always focussed - and her immediate family especially her two birth-children Cunomar and Graine. This time round the dreaming is intergrated into the story so that it never slows the plot or becomes unbelievable to a realist like myself. This was a "one-more-chapter" type of book so that for several nights I only put aside the book when I could no longer focus on the page and almost dropped-off with the book open in front of me.
I thought the second in the series was a real disappointment and only gave it two stars (and seem to have upset other reviewers - tough)as it foucussed largely on a character other than the Boudicca and so has few reviews but this was great and a real return to form.

Immerse yourself in a forgotten world - amazing
Having just read all four of the Boudica books back-to-back I cannot recommend them highly enough. Scott has recreated in incredible detail an era of tribal British life which has been largely lost to history. Fictionalised but well-researched and based on what we do know as fact, the world of the warrior Boudica and her family and her people is vividly brought to life and gripped me all the way through. Spiritual, sensual, spectacular battles, brilliantly written, and a poignant evocation of how we used to live in harmony with our lands until the Romans came and stamped out our native culture. Well worth getting drawn into!

Gripped
The series so far have all been gripping and a cant put down, late night, 'oh God work in the morning' read- next!