Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - A Crowning Mercy (Crowning Mercy, Bk 1)

A Crowning Mercy (Crowning Mercy, Bk 1)
A Crowning Mercy - Crowning Mercy, Bk 1
Author: Bernard Cornwell, Susannah Kells
The civil war that is tearing England asunder in the year 1643 has not yet touched Dorcas Slythe, a secretly rebellious young Puritan woman living in the countryside south of London. She aches to escape the safe, pious tyranny of her father -- and the opportunity appears with the arrival of Toby Lazender, dashing scion of a powerful royalist fam...  more »
Info icon
ISBN-13: 9780061724381
ISBN-10: 0061724386
Publication Date: 12/1/2009
Pages: 544
Edition: Reprint
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 7

3.6 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review
Read All 6 Book Reviews of "A Crowning Mercy Crowning Mercy Bk 1"

Please Log in to Rate these Book Reviews

popkrn avatar reviewed A Crowning Mercy (Crowning Mercy, Bk 1) on + 21 more book reviews
Fantastic reading. Contains both romannce and adventure.
richkaplanovitchsky avatar reviewed A Crowning Mercy (Crowning Mercy, Bk 1) on + 21 more book reviews
Gripping love story and illuminating historical fiction set during the Puritan Glorious Revolution in Britain in the 1600s. No doubt this is simplified history. For me, the heroine is too passive, and I found the moments when she is threatened a bit too scary and perilous. I like my protagonists to be more active and master of their predicament. Still, this was fun and, as I said, gripping.


Genres: