After the original manuscript was stolen from her car, Penman rewrote the entire novel that would become The Sunne in Splendour. Seattle Post-Intelligencer About the Author For many years while she was a student and then a tax lawyer, Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) worked on a novel about the life of Richard III and The War of the Roses. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) A vivid portrait of a lost time. San Francisco Chronicle A remarkably detailed look at how people lived in medieval England and Wales.Worth reading. manages to illuminate the alien shadowland of the Middle Ages and populate it with vital characters whose politics and passions are as vivid as our own. Review Quotes A marvelous literary and historical achievement. It is a tale of opposing wills that would eventually clash in a storm of violence and betrayal-an irresistible saga that brings the pages of history completely, provocatively, and magnificently alive.
This is his story, and the story of Henry III, as weak and changeable as Simon was brash and unbending. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the kings incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people. Book Synopsis Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III.
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