Daughters of the Grail, Elizabeth Chadwick
Daughters of the Grail, Elizabeth Chadwick
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Daughters of the Grail

Author: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrator: Amy Scanlon

Unabridged: 16 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/24/2024


Synopsis

Thirteenth-century France. Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. But the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to destroy Bridget for using her healing talents and supernatural abilities.

Bridget’s duty to continue the bloodline leads her into the arms of Raoul de Montvallant—a Catholic. But when the Church’s savage religious intolerance causes Raoul to turn rebel, a terrible vengeance is exacted by Simon de Montfort, the unstoppable Catholic leader of a crusade against peaceful "heretics."

As war rages on, it is the children of these passionate souls, Magda and Dominic, who must strive to preserve the ancient knowledge for future generations—and find the love and courage to endure …

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 Mela on November 08, 2022

As someone said, in Elizabeth Chadwick books the history is gloriously alive. I see it precisely every time I read her novel. And I have written about it in my reviews of other her books. No matter, whether it is a heat of the battle, a cold of the steel, a touch of the longing hand, a kiss of a......more

Goodreads review by Angela on May 24, 2020

When I first started reading this I wasn't sure if I was going to stick with it as the first hundred pages were a bit sluggish in places but I decided to keep on reading because I haven't been disappointed by an Elizabeth Chadwick book before and I wasn't keen to start now. The story is quite a saga......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on September 15, 2013

I've never read anything about the Albigensian Crusade nor about Cathars before. I mean, I've read mentions of them when reading medieval non-fiction, but it was only in passing and as footnotes. Yet, Elizabeth Chadwick brings it to bold and brilliant life in this book. I felt the peace the Cathars......more

Goodreads review by Moira on March 14, 2017

I felt this dragged on just a little too long, I do enjoy this authors work greatly but there was something about this particular story that just didn't gel for me.......more