Product Description

In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance. This book recreates the beginnings of a story so powerful its impact has survived through the ages, recounting her journey to adulthood.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #149357 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-02
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

From the Publisher
Set in Iron-Age Britain and Imperial Rome, the second novel in the bestselling Boudica series.

From the Back Cover
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BOUDICA
DREAMING THE EAGLE
The first volume in the bestselling BOUDICA series

'A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and the heroics of humanity.' Jean Auel

'What's amazing to me about this tale of Boudica is the pitch-perfect fluency with which Manda Scott brings it forth. It's as if she were an eyewitness recounting real events that she really saw and really participated in. All of it is utterly convincing and compelling ...A stunning feat of the imagination and an absolute must-read for lovers of historical fiction.' Steven Pressfield

'BOUDICA is a staggeringly imaginative invocation of Britain's secret history . . . Breathtakingly good, it reveals the best and worst in all of us.' Val McDermid

'An extraordinary work combining history and imagination. It's exciting and intriguing, taking you into a world where unbelievable danger and cruelty sit side by side with magic, spirituality and profound human relationships. At times I was moved to tears, at others, immensely proud to be bred from a tradition that made warriors of women.' Jenni Murray, (Woman's Hour)

'It looks as if we have a new trilogy to rival The Lord of the Rings in its appeal. Actually, I think it will be better. Scott doesn't mess about with the elves. And her druids are really scary.' Jane Jakeman, Scotland on Sunday

About the Author
is a veterinary surgeon, writer and climber. Born and educated in Scotland, she now lives in Suffolk with two lurchers and too many cats. Known primarily as a crime writer, her first novel, Hen’s Teeth was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her subsequent novels are Night Mares, Stronger than Death and No Good Deed, for which she was hailed by the Times as ‘one of Britain’s most important crime writers’.
Dreaming the Eagle, the first book in the Boudica series, is also available in Bantam paperback

Customer Reviews

Honouring our Ancient Ancestors
What an incredible book, Manda has proven once more that she can lead a masterclass in the historical novel. It is a rip roaring, thunderous cavalry charge and the pages just seemed to turn faster and faster. I can't wait to complete the set and then re-read them all at a more sedate pace.
Reading other reviews I cannot help but feel as if at least one reader was reading a different book to myself.
The author weaves`an intricate web mixing love and hate, war and tenuous peace, human relationships as well as the love and devotion between warrior and hounds and warriors and their horses.
The juxtaposition between warrior and dreamers is examined with care and we are shown the importance of animism in the nations psyche as the mix of spirit and energy and the worship of the prime Gods is brought to the fore.
As well as being an thoroughly entertaining read I found that I was vastly stimulated and able to escape from now as the pages absorbed me and took me back to the time of my ancestors.
To write like this Manda has surely been touched by the Gods and maybe there is an element of past lives seeping in to her in order to create the reality of what was.
This skilled storyteller comes across more like a modern foreign correspondent/journalist who saw and experienced what she has written of as opposed to a writer of historical fiction.
Manda...bless you for allowing me to enter albeit ever so briefly, the time and lands of my ancestors.

Well Thought Out and Well Written
I enjoyed this book tremendously, even better than the first one. Although Manda Scott does not stick to the conventional historical facts of Boudica the book loses nothing in the telling.

The storyline flows beautiful without any lulls which is a credit to the authors story telling ability. Although the books is quite large (almost 600 pages), I read it in quite a short space of time. This is a good indication of how the story grips you.

I would not wish to spoil the plot in any way for the reader. Suffice to say that Breaca (the Boudica) is continuing her fight against the might of the Roman Legions in Britain, ably assisted by her husband Caradoc, a British war chieftain.

One particular Roman officer, Julius Valerius is a thorn in their side. He is becoming increasingly renowned for his fighting prowess and his brutality against the British. However he is not all he seems to be. He holds a terrible secret that will affect the lives of all of them.

To tell any more would spoil the book for all potential readers.

Bringer of Victory

This is the third book in what started out to be a trilogy, but happily for the reader the author has obviously had more material than she anticipated and has added another book after this one.. All the books are extremely well written and on a subject that is dear to my heart, the occupation of Britain by the Roman Legions.

The book is the continuing story of Breaca, the Boudica or Bringer of Victory. Set in AD 57, much of Britannia is under the yoke of the Roman legions for almost a decade and in the South the vassal states are paying costly tithes to the Emperor for the pleasure of living in their own lands.

Boudica has left the island of Mona to make her way back to the lands of the Eceni, where she and her warriors are needed the most. Unfortunately since she left them the Eceni, a once proud people have become a downtrodden race, no longer allowed to worship the old gods.

In Hibernia, Ban, Breaca's half brother is struggling to make peace with his past life. Provoked by the Romans he vows to sail to Britain to come face to face with the Roman forces . . .