Follett's storytelling skills make their adventures riveting * The Times *
Deploying a substantial cast of characters, Follett unrolls a familiar history of religious and political ferment and turns it into accessible and enjoyable fiction * Daily Mail *
This triumphant saga, begun almost thirty years ago with The Pillars Of The Earth, moves across England to Scotland, France and the New World * Sunday Express *
A sumptuous slice of swashbuckling Elizabethan romance * Mail on Sunday *
The characters, both fictional and real, are fascinating, and the Tudor period setting holds its own special allure. This is a novel that fans of historical fiction will savour and cherish * The National *
A huge read, perfect for long winter nights * Choice *
You won't be able to put it down * Independent *
Enormous and brilliant . . . this mammoth tale seems to touch all human emotion - love and hate, loyalty and treachery, hope and despair. This is truly a novel to get lost in * Cosmopolitan *
A thundering ride through history * Peterborough Evening Telegraph *
Follett has once more lit the touch paper of English history and allowed it to explode across the pages in in all its vivid technicolour * Lancashire Evening Post *