Twelfth-century England, broken by civil war and hunger, supplies the ground for Ken Follett's long novel about the raising of a cathedral and what people will do to see it stand.
From 1135 the story follows Tom Builder, a mason with a family close to starvation and a design he has never had the chance to attempt, and Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, who concludes that his town survives only by building something extraordinary. Their project draws in landowners, bishops, outlaws and rivals, setting the church against the crown and brother against brother across decades of ambition and reprisal.
Shape of the story:
• First volume of the Kingsbridge Novels
• Medieval construction rendered in exact, practical detail
• Several linked families followed across many years
• Continues in World Without End, then A Column of Fire
For readers of long historical fiction and medieval history, Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth can be ordered from Boipoka.
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