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Sarum is the story of one city and five families through ten thousand years from the ice age to the present day. The City is Salisbury, one of the oldest and most evocative places in the British Isles, built in a bowl of land where five rivers fun together and destined to become one of the great meeting places of Southern England. The Families, drawn one by one into the fabric of this immense saga, become-as the story gathers momentum-more and more entwined through their marriages, rivalries and ambitions. The Wilsons, descended from Tep, the outcast prehistoric hunter. The Masons - from Nooma who shapes the great sarsens of Stonehenge to Osmund whose genius still lives on through the mighty cathedral he helped build. The Porteus family, descended from Caius Porteus the young Roman exiled in cold damp Britannia when his career takes a downward turn. The Shockleys, who trace their roots back to Saxon thegns, and to the beautiful Aelgifu who fights side by side with her brothers against the Vikings. The Godfreys, romantics, dreamers, whose ancestor, Richard de Godefroi came from Normandy with William the Conqueror. The Lives of all of these people and more are interwoven into the story of the city. In Salisbury lies the history of England and this ambitious and brilliant novel with its rich human dramas, its panoramic backcloth and its vivid evocation of place, brings that history together in a narrative as authoritative as it is spellbinding. Hardback Ed with dustjacket 1987
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