Nyskoven

by Edward Rutherfurd

Nyskoven i Sydengland har i sin lange historie dannet rammen om alt fra kongemord og borgerkrig til familiefejder og heksebrændinger. Den har huset rigmænd og fattigfolk, smuglere og lærde og været vidne til kærlighed mellem høj og lav, jalousi og mord.

To drenges venskab og deres loyalitet over for deres fædre bliver testet til det yderste, da et væddemål udvikler sig til en kamp for livet. Og da den spanske flåde nærmer sig England, må flere personer i Nyskoven bestemme sig for, hvilken side de kæmper på. En kvinde drømmer om at blive en del af det fine selskab, intetanende om at hendes mand forsøger at stoppe smuglerne i Nyskoven. En anden kvinde tvinges til at vælge mellem sin familie og kærligheden.

I det hele taget står indbyggerne i Nyskoven ofte over for dilemmaer, når de må vælge mellem kærlighed og prestige, begær og integritet. Det er svære valg, ikke mindst i Nyskoven, hvor ting ikke altid er, hvad de ser ud til at være.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, British Literature

415 pages, Hardcover

Published March 20, 2017

About the author

Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSSKA, a novel of Russia; LONDON; THE FOREST, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century. His books have been translated into twenty languages.

Edward has lived in London, New York, New Hampshire and Ireland. He currently divides his time between New England and Europe. He has two children.

Edward Rutherfurd is a Life Member of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, the Salisbury Civic Society, and the Friends of Chawton House, which is located in Jane Austen's village and dedicated to the study of women writers. He is also a Patron of the National Theatre of Ireland (the Abbey Theatre) in Dublin.

In 2005, the City of Salisbury commemorated his services to the city by naming one of the streets leading off its medieval market place 'Rutherfurd Walk'.

Reviews

[Mark Schoenhals · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent

[Mari · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed listening to the book but it was an abridged version so it was difficult to follow at times

[нєνєℓ ¢ανα · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too long... quite boring sometimes... the same schedule as the others that he had published before... not the best as some of them...

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great - slow start, but rewarding sticking with it.

[Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I usually really love Rutherfurd, but this one wasn't as good as the others of his that I have read. It was decent, just not as good as some of his other stuff.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed the context of history, the implementation of Magna Carra being one of the pivotal points in time explored in this volume.