Description
| Product ID: | 9780751538694 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Champion |
| Authors: | Author: Elizabeth Chadwick |
| Page Count: | 512 |
| Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating * A wonderful, well-researched tear-jerker of an historical romance Alexander and Hervi de Montroi, half-brothers with no inheritance, meet in France. Hervi is a professional jouster and Alexander, fleeing the beatings of an English monastery, needs a trade. Despite misgivings, Hervi takes him on as his squire, introducing him to the travellers'' immoral lifestyle. He befriends a girl, Monday, taking care of her after her parents die until, pregnant with Alexander''s child, she leaves, finding shelter in a castle as a seamstress. Noticed by King John, she becomes his mistress in England, bearing his son and gaining a house. Meanwhile, Stefan has returned to England too, in the pay of an Earl - they meet again at court and, now older, fall in love. They have the King''s blessing, but Monday''s grandfather, now heirless, sees her as a way to gain power. She escapes his kidnapping to be reunited with Alexander on the land granted to him by the Earl. |
| Imprint Name: | Sphere |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-05-04 |
