The Founding
The Morland Dynasty, Book 1

I was so disappointed! The characters and setting were amazing, and the historical aspects were interesting, but the story was terribly flat. I wanted to care what happened to the characters, but I just didn't. Where there should have been depth and emotion, there was "this happened, then this happe......more

From my blog...[return]The first in the Morland Dynasty Series, The Founding by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, is beautifully written with elaborate descriptions, and realistic characters making The Founding an intriguing novel to read, especially for those who are partial to historical fiction. The Foundin......more

Written in the 1980s, I am kinder about the historical howlers - the same level of research was just not expected then. I am fond of Ms Harrod-Eagles' 'Bill Slider' series and figured she would not have written anything positively unreadable. On first showing, this series may be a comfy fill-in when......more

This is book one of an exhausting yet enjoyable series that begins during the Wars of the Roses. The heroine is a ward of the powerful Beaufort family with a secret passion for Richard, Duke of York (it is always a passion for Edward or Richard but never Edmund, for obvious reasons), yet is forced i......more

The saga of the Morland family begins in 1434 with the marriage of penniless gentlewoman Eleanor Courteney to Robert Morland, the son of a wealthy social-climbing sheep farmer. Eleanor, an orphan, has grown up in the south of England in the household of Lord Edmund Beaufort, and she is horrified at......more