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Overview
The year is 1066 and the world is about to change. Suddenly life in England is going to be completely different, especially for Ailith, a young Saxon wife. It is the year in which she loses both her husband and young son, and the year in which the Normans come, not as friends, but in search of conquest. Ailith's grief and despair run so deep that she would have done away with herself and joined her husband and son if a handsome, womanizing Norman, Rolf de Brize, had not happened by in the nick of time. Feeling strangely responsible for the woman whose life he has saved, the normally unreliable Rolf installs Ailith as chatelaine of Ulverton, his English estate. Despite his wife and daughter in France, he and Ailith eventually fall in love and have a daughter, Julitta. But can love truly conquer all - even Rolf's wife's decision to take her rightful place as mistress of Ulverton, and Ailith's discovery of a betrayal at the Battle of Hastings that she can never forgive?Can proud Ailith, widow of Goldwin the Armourer, find happiness with Rolf de Brize, the Norman who slew her brothers-and can she defeat the wife he left behind in Brittany? That's the double-question posed by Betty Trask Award winner Elizabeth Chadwick in The Conquest, a novel set in the bloody aftermath of the Battle of Hastings.
Book Details
Published
August 1, 1996
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Pages
464
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312154974