This is the story of the bitter seventh century struggle between Northumbria and Mercia that ends with the defeat of the Mercian heathen. Behind all is the civilising influence of the Saints Oswald, Aidan and Wilfred, which gradually broke down the savage barbarism and ignorance of post-Roman Britain.
The prolific Meriol Trevor, BA, FRSL was a writer of novels, biographies, and children's books. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Trevor wrote a two-volume biography of John Henry Newman (The Pillar of the Cloud and Light in Winter) which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1962.