![]() ![]() “A richly imagined vision of history, written with genuine delight.” - San Francisco Chronicle A fantastic look at a variety of historical times, with a wide array of characters, and a sense of reality through out - after all, as far as we know, this is how it could have happened. ![]() Rutherford tells the story of the place we know as Stonehenge over the course of thousands of years. "An epic in the truest sense of the word. ![]() Meticulously researched and epic in scope, Sarum covers the entire sweep of English civilization: from the early hunters and farmers, the creation of Stonehenge, the dawn of Christianity, and the Black Death through the Reformation, the wars in America, the Industrial Age, and the Victorian social reforms up through the World War II invasion of Normandy and the modern-day concerns of a once-preeminent empire. We become drawn not only into the fortunes of the individual family members, but also the larger destinies of each family line. While each family has its own distinct characteristics, the successive generations reflect the changing character of Britain. In Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd weaves a compelling saga of five English families whose fates become intertwined over the course of centuries. ![]()
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