As a long-term fan of Georgette Heyer, typically regency novels are more my type of historical novel, but I’ve been playing with a few others – another £1 charity shop buy – I enjoyed The Falcons of Montabard – I’ve got very little knowledge of that period, but judging by the extra-reading offered at the end, it seems well researched, and the story was well paced – giving insights into the brutal realities of living life in the 1120s, especially on trips to Jerusalem at a time of severe fighting, and in which women were ‘sold’ – along with their properties – to men who wanted to establish a foothold in the region. I’d definitely read another one by this author – and there definitely seem to be plenty.
A rather blurred page that I snapped, because the ‘descendent of a fish that St Peter caught’ tickled my sense of humour:
