The writing has an elegant simplicity that moves this bulky narrative along without too much artifice: its pace is somewhat slowed by the constant switches in scene-and-century, but, all in all, a fulsome and entertaining saga. Sarum is the first Edward Rutherford book I tackled, although his New York book has stared at me with longing on a shelf for years.

A little bust carved by Hwll is found by Nooma the sword used by a Celtic chieftain is inherited by a Roman governor and implements such as these, rife with portent, hold this vast fabric together as we move on to a modern Shockley (an Aelfwald descendant), in love with a modern Godfrey (a Godefroi descandant), who is robbed by a youthfully prankish Tep-descendant named John Wilson while the city of Salisbury celebrates its glorious past. This lengthy novel of more than one thousand pages spans. Moving quickly along to King Arthur's court, to the plague years, to the machinations of the Tudors, to the exploration of the New World, to the Revolutionary, First and Second World Wars. Sarum by Edward Rutherford is an epic historical novel about the area of England known as Sarum. Another line, founded by Nooma the mason (architect of Stonehenge), becomes the Masons, who marry descendants of Aelfwald the Dane (Shockleys), who in turn marry into the final, Godfrey, family (descended from medieval knight Richard de Godefroi). His descendants become the Porters and Wilsons, while those of his bested rival, Tep, become the Forests. Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd 4.2 (60) eBook 11.99 Paperback 20.00 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 34. Sarum is a multi-millennium epic of the lands around Salisbury Plain. Hwll the caveman, in search of the better life, leaves his polar icecap with wife and family for warmer climes and ends up in Sarum, where he competes well and flourishes. No one pens a historical fiction saga as boldly, or as adroitly, as Edward Rutherfurd. A first novel and 10,000-year history of England from Ice Age to present, tracing five fictional families from caveman antecedents to their present incarnations, and set in Sarum (an old name for Salisbury). A first novel and 10,000-year history of England from Ice Age to present, tracing five fictional.

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