Product Description

Despite having signed the Magna Carta and made promises to mend his ways, there is still great dissatisfaction with King John's rule. Among the rebellious nobles is young Nicholas de Caen. While fighting John's troops, he is captured, but during the trip back to be questioned, the treacherous marshes cause trouble and Nicholas and King John's treasure are both lost. Nicholas is injured and ends up at a nunnery where he is nursed by Miriel of Wisbech. News of the lost treasure comes to them and the nuns realise the young man they are looking after probably knows something about this...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31832 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Review
'The best writer of mediaeval fiction currently around' - HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW 'Elizabeth Chadwick knows exactly how to write convincing and compelling historical fiction' - Marina Oliver 'Chadwick is a prize-winning novelist who does not romanticize what was often a dangerous and brutal time...Intelligent, enjoyable and entertaining' - LIBRARY JOURNAL

About the Author
Much of Elizabeth Chadwick's research is carried out as a member of Regia Anglorum, an early medieval re-enactment society. She also tutors in the skill of writing historical and romantic fiction. She won a Betty Trask Award for THE WILD HUNT, her first novel.

Customer Reviews

COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!
I had to stay up until I finished it at 1AM. Another outstanding saga from Elizabeth Chadwick. I cannot get enough of her books, everyone of them sends me back to another world, another time.

This was a bit different from the author's usual story -- you really won't find many lords, ladies and knights in this one. Just the wool trade, an interesting foot note in history on the disappearance into the quicksand of John's treasure, a truly evil bad guy and a pair of lovers who take FOREVER to realize they are meant to be. Don't misunderstand me, this is not your usual Julie Garwood/Judith McNaught historical romance with the BIG MISUNDERSTANDING halfway through the book, just a darn good story in an excellent historical setting.

I will read this again and again, and can't wait to read more of Chadwick's books.

Another hit for Chadwick!
Well done! Another sensational book from Elizabeth Chadwick!! Like another reviewer of this book, I too had to stay up way past my bedtime to finish this - too hard to put down!

In my last review for The French Revolution series by Jean Plaidy I mentioned that I just didn't feel the emotional connection with the characters, but not so with The Marsh King's Daughter! The heroine, Miriel, is a woman after my own heart. She is a strong, intelligent and passionate woman who fights for what she wants in life. The more people try to beat her down the more she will fight back.

The love story between Nicholas and Miriel is deliciously sweet and the love scenes will leave you needing a cigarette after reading!

I love the way a good novel brings you right into the action and into the feelings and emotions of the characters. I felt a wide range of emotions during my reading experience...from pity to love to wanting to jump through the pages and rip a guy's head off! That's the beauty of Elizabeth Chadwick! Thanks EC!

Overall: 5/5


Song: Won't Back Down by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Well Written Historical Fiction
Much of Elizabeth Chadwick's research is carried out as a member of Regia Anglorum, this is an early medieval re-enactment society. Her writing in recent books has become much more accomplished. She now writes about the period with the convictions of her obvious knowledge of the subject and has also made a subtle change from writing what were in effect historical love stories (nothing wrong with that) to historical novels with a love interest.

This book is set in 13th century England. The country has been through a turbulent time the Lionheart a King who was virtually never seen by his subjects, either away at the crusades or in his lands across the channel is long dead but the ransom money raised by Richard's mother for his release from captivity has left his subjects much the poorer. The Lionheart's younger brother King John is coming to the end of a reign fraught with troubles, many of his barons and subjects unforgiving over John's attempts to usurp the throne while Richard was away. Amid all of this Nicholas de Caen, a knight injured fighting King John's troops is nursed back to health in a nunnery . . .

The author's style is slowly changing, to my way of thinking for the better, but what does remain constant is her knowledge of the period about which she writes and her ability to draw the reader into the story, until they could almost be there. This is a rare talent indeed.