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| Original Title: | The Love Knot |
| ISBN: | 0751525227 (ISBN13: 9780751525229) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Elizabeth Chadwick
Paperback | Pages: 284 pages Rating: 4.03 | 1128 Users | 86 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Love Knot |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Chadwick |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 284 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 1999 by Time Warner (first published December 3rd 1998) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Historical Romance. Medieval. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature |
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In the summer of 1140, Oliver Pascal returns home from a long pilgrimage to discover England ravaged by civil war and his family lands forfeit to the conflict between Henry I's daughter Mathilda, and her cousin Stephen of Blois, who has seized the crown at her expense. Riding to the Earl of Gloucester's keep at Bristol, Oliver stumbles upon the aftermath of a mercenary attack on an isolated village. Among the survivors are Richard, an illegitimate royal son and half-brother to the Earl himself, and the boy's young nurse Catrin. Widowed, stubborn and proud, she has much in common with Oliver, a man still grieving for a wife lost in childbirth.At Bristol, Catrin meets Ethel, a wise woman and midwife, who begins to train her in the healing arts and is instrumental in bringing Oliver and Catrin together as lovers. But the endurance of that love is threatened by the perils of injury in battle, the danger of childbirth, the upheaval of continuing civil war, and the risk of loving in exchange for nothing but heartbreak. In the end Catrin must decide where her true loyalties lie.
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Ratings: 4.03 From 1128 Users | 86 ReviewsArticle Regarding Books The Love Knot
This book was a 2.5. Chadwick's books are all very similar for me, in that they all have a choppy flow. Where as most good books have an organized development, climax and ending, Chadwick's works seem to be disorganized, with choppy development, several climaxes, and abrupt (or even disappointing) endings. Another thing that all of EC's books seem to have in common is annoyingly repetitive language. The Love Knot was no different. If I read "oblivion", or "delivered the afterbirth", one moreThe Love Knot is one of Elizabeth Chadwick's earlier books. It's more of a historical romance than historical fiction, in that the main characters aren't real, but the times are, and there are other historical figures aplenty. It takes place during the war between Stephen of Blois and Empress Mathilda over who is the rightful ruler of England. Oliver is just back from pilgrimage to the Holy Land when he meets Catrin, a young widow. Their trials and tribulations and the relationship they develop
Even Chadwick's second best novels are a cut above much of the historical fiction genre.This is one of her earlier books and more of a historical romance than true historical fiction, the main characters being fictional. This is the second time I've read the book, in between I had read SKP's When Christ and His Saints Slept about England's civil war. Having a better understanding of that complicated period made this novel much more enjoyable than the first time. I don't understand a previous
A likeable novel, set during the protracted civil war between Empress Matilda (Mathilda in this book) and Stephen de Blois, and contemplates on the lives and emotions of ordinary individuals who are trapped in their nobles war. This book seems like a feel-good version of the more sober When Christ and His Saints Slept although it has its own historical merit, and as this is tagged under historical romance, the main fictional characters do reasonable love affair and even pining over.
Of the Goodreads description had matched the blurb on the back of the book, I doubt I would have bought this book online. But I did buy it and so I read it. It's a medieval soap opera, but still good for all that. It is a fascinating period and EC does such a wonderful job with description and detail. Do I recommend it? Well, I suppose it would depend. Yes to a history buff. No to my kids, even if they were adult.
I enjoyed this, tho I found it a bit predictable. It was an entertaining tale involving the war of Stephen and Matilda, midwifery, superstitions, and knights. Oh, and let's not forget romance. The main character is Catrin who has been widowed for three years (or so she thinks) and after being caught in the middle of the Stephen and Matilda war in England, 1140, she barely escapes with her life from an evil band of raping, pillaging merceneries. She meets and falls in love with a knight that is
Another excellent Elizabeth Chadwick historical, though may be not my favourite of hers. When Oliver Pascal returns from a long pilgrimage in 1140 he finds his brother dead and their lands given to a Flemish mercenary. The country's in turmoil with civil war raging between Stephen and Mathilda. Drawn to the site of a raid by the smell of smoke, he finds two survivors, Catrin, a young widow, and her charge Richard, bastard son of the old king. He delivers them safely to Earl Robert, in command of
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