Song at Dawn, Jean Gill
Song at Dawn, Jean Gill
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Song at Dawn
1150 in Provence

Author: Jean Gill

Narrator: Jake Urry

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: The 13th Sign

Published: 04/18/2018

Synopsis

1150 in Provence, where making love and making paper are both crimes against the Church.

Like 'Game of Thrones' with real history. Book 1 of the multi-award-winning epic medieval Historical Fiction series 'The Troubadours'.

Estela wants to be Queen Aliénor’s troubadour and ex-crusader Dragonetz los Pros is commanded to teach her. In a world where love and marriage are as divided as Christian, Muslim and Jew, personal and political passions create deadly enemies.

On the run from abuse, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her underskirt. Her talent finds a patron in Aliénor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the Queen's finest troubadour and Commander of the Guard, Dragonetz los Pros. Their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of medieval Narbonne.

Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill's spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Ermengarda of Narbonne, who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers.

'Historical Fiction at its best.' Karen Charlton, author of the Detective Lavender Mysteries

'Believable, page-turning and memorable.' Lela Michael, S.P. Review

Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice

Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction

Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards and the Chaucer Awards

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alina on December 17, 2019

Rating: 3.5/5 Song at Dawn is the first instalment in a romantic thriller series entitled The Troubadours Quartet written by Welsh author Jean Gill and it is set in medieval Occitania after the Second Crusade. In short, we follow Estela de Matin, a sixteen-year-old girl, who ran away from an abusive......more

Goodreads review by Liza on March 10, 2016

Spell-binding and highly entertaining. Song at Dawn, first and FREE book of 'The Troubadours Quartet' is set in 1150 in Provence, France. It is the “troubadour era”, and the period following the Second Crusade, and follows the adventures of the young Estela de Matin. Fleeing abuse, Estela is found in......more

Goodreads review by jhanami on January 21, 2020

I loved Song At Dawn - what a brilliant start to the series! Full of fascinating historical detail, political intrigue and a good dash of romance and adventure the story brings medieval France and Estela’s journey to vivid life. Jake Urry’s narration adds another level of enjoyment by conjuring up d......more

Goodreads review by Belinda on June 25, 2022

4,5 stars - English Ebook This book is so well-written and researched that I found myself highlighting and looking up unfamiliar words and place names just to gain better context on what I mistakenly assumed would be a familiar and well-worn story. Queen Eleanor is really just a wry and sometimes exa......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 24, 2012

'Song at Dawn' by Jean Gill is a fabulous historical novel. It is the story of Estela, a gifted young musician, who is swept up into the retinue of one my favourite historical characters of all time: Aliénor (Eleanor) of Aquitaine. Then the Queen of France, the cultured Aliénor takes Estela on a vis......more

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