Sarah Bower
Auteur de Sins of the House of Borgia
Œuvres de Sarah Bower
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- Nom légal
- Bower, Sarah Ann
- Date de naissance
- 1954-02-23
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Suffolk, England, UK
- Études
- University of East Anglia (MA Creative Writing 2002)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 410
- Popularité
- #59,368
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 24
- ISBN
- 16
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
I have to admit I struggled a bit with this book and it took me a lot longer than a book of this length should have. There is nothing per se "wrong" with it, I just had difficulty completing it. Not a book for those who take offence in a certain type of graphic language (which doesnt cover me), this is the story of Bishop Odo (brother of William the Bastard aka William the Conqueror) and the woman Gyltha, who he takes as his mistress after she is one of the women hired to start work on what will become the Bayeux Tapestry. There is opposition on all sides to the relationship, not least because of her lower status and the fact he is a member of the clergy (and the brother of the King) and therefore should be celibate. In the end decisions have to be made....… (plus d'informations)