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“Gripping and fascinating.”
Elizabeth Buchan, New York Times bestselling author
“Walters draws wonderfully on her crime-writing skills…This well-researched novel of seventeenth-century warfare shows the perils and rewards of sticking to one’s principles.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Endearing characters spark life into centuries-old history in Walters’s latest, which will appeal to fans of Philippa Gregory, Margaret George, and Sharon Kay Penman.”
Library Journal (starred review)
“I loved every moment of this brilliantly evocative saga of struggle, love, and danger set against the horrors of civil war.”
S. W. Perry, bestselling author of the Jackdaw Mysteries
“A truly, utterly gripping English Civil War love story that is as fleet and majestic as the birds of the title. This is Minette Walters at her brilliant best.”
Paul Blezard, LoveReading
“This well-researched, atmospheric tale is as gripping as any of her thrillers.”
Joanne Finney, Good Housekeeping
“The author best known for her crime fiction sets this enthralling, tender love story against the brutal background of the English Civil War.”
The i
“Minette Walters, a stalwart of crime fiction, is excellent on the horrors of civil war in Dorset, and Swift is a memorable and spirited…heroine.”
Antonia Senior, The Times
“This is historical fiction at its finest…Jayne is a fantastic character, a woman very much in a man’s world, living and working to bring succor to those in need.”
Belfast Telegraph
“A cleverly crafted combination of romance and adventure story.”
Sunday Times