![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning in 1099, the story is divided into seven uneven parts: ""The Hunt,"" ""Beaulieu,"" ""Lymington,"" ""The Armada Tree,"" ""Alice,"" ""Albion Park"" and ""Pride of the Forest."" Intermingling real and fictional characters, the narrative traces the lineage of several families, mostly unknown outside rarified circles of Anglophiliacs. In this volume he expands his Chaucerian tapestry to include the chivalrous past of the storied New Forest bordering the south coast near the Isle of Wight. Charting an entire millennium in his newest saga, Rutherfurd continues to pursue-in meandering prose and at tedious length-his fascination with nugatory events in English history, picking up loose threads from his sprawling bestselling novels London and Sarum. ![]()
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