Time After Time
Book description
A young Anglo-Saxon woman is travelling across an empty East Anglian landscape. She's dressed as a man, for safety. But when her only companion is murdered, she knows she faces discovery, and almost certainly much worse.
In the Napoleonic period, a little boy has to walk several miles to market,…
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The gorgeous cover is fitting for such lyrical writing. There were plenty of places where the stories made me smile, they were so well observed.
The author’s knowledge of post-Roman Britain and the superstitious Anglo-Saxon culture that followed shone through and it is little surprise to discover that Watson studied Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon) at university. He says that as far as possible, he excluded all Norman French vocabulary from the Anglo-Saxon parts of Time After Time because the Norman Conquest was still more than four hundred years away. Despite this, the language and imagery are utterly transporting,…
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