The Marsh King's Daughter

Name: The Marsh King's Daughter
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Chadwick
ISBN: 9798892732642

Author: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrator: Amy Scanlon

Unabridged: 16 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/06/2024

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Despite having signed the Magna Carta and made promises to mend his ways, there is still great dissatisfaction with King John's rule.

Among the rebellious nobles is young Nicholas de Caen. While fighting John's troops, he is captured, but during the trip back to be questioned, the treacherous marshes cause trouble and Nicholas and King John's treasure are both lost. Nicholas is injured and ends up at a nunnery where he is nursed by Miriel of Wisbech.

News of the lost treasure comes to them and the nuns realise the young man they are looking after probably knows something about this ...

About Elizabeth Chadwick

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick lives in a cottage in the Vale of Belvoir in Nottinghamshire with her husband and their four dogs. Her first novel, The Wild Hunt, won a Betty Trask Award, To Defy a King won the Romantic Novelist Association's Historical Novel Prize and The Scarlet Lion was nominated by Richard Lee - founder of the Historical Novel Society - as one of the top ten historical novels of the last decade. She often lectures at conferences and historical venues, has been consulted for television documentaries and is a member of the Royal Historical Society.Keep in touch with Elizabeth via her website, her blogs or on social media.www.elizabethchadwick.comtwitter: @chadwickauthorfacebook: ElizabethChadwick

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on February 23, 2014

I’ve wanted to read a book by Elizabeth Chadwick for a while – a lot of my Goodreads friends rave about her work – and so I finally bought one to read. I chose this book because of the title – it’s the name of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale that I am actually thinking of rewriting one day. The......more

Goodreads review by Tara on September 17, 2009

This is my first Chadwick novel and I am impressed enough that I am going to read more. Whereas it is not the best book I have ever read, I thoroughly enjoyed it and its heroine, Miriel. In the novel's beginning, Miriel is a young girl whose stepfather is determined to be rid of her. After almost bu......more

Goodreads review by Amy on February 01, 2009

Well done! Another sensational book from Elizabeth Chadwick!! Like another reviewer of this book, I too had to stay up way past my bedtime to finish this – too hard to put down! In my last review for The French Revolution series by Jean Plaidy I mentioned that I just didn’t feel the emotional connect......more