The Lute Player, Norah Lofts
The Lute Player, Norah Lofts
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The Lute Player

Author: Norah Lofts

Narrator: David Thorpe, Karen Cass

Unabridged: 20 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 04/01/2016

Synopsis

Out of the courts of twelfth-century England strode the legendary figure of Richard of England – leading his knights onto the Saracen battlefields – inspired by a vision of the Holy Land. Here is the story of the Soldier-King and the Third Crusade – of his strange, ill-fated union with Berengaria, Princess of Navarre – of his mother, the She-Wolf, Eleanor of Aquitaine who loved her son with a frantic, possessive pride. And, above all, here is the story of the minstrel whose life was linked with that of the King – the story of Blondel – the Lute Player…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy

SUPERB..Told in the voice of the real Eleanor of Aquitaine, a fictional hunchback Duchess who is half sister to Berengaria, (the little known but real wife of Richard the Lionheart), and the mythical Troubador who discovers Richard held for ransom in Germany after the Crusades. This, for me, is ulti......more

Goodreads review by Malacima

Story of Richard the Lionheart, as told through the eyes of Blondel the lute player (known mostly for his role in rescuing Richard from imprisonment by Leopold of Austria), Anna the fictional hunchbacked sister of Berengaria of Navarre ( Richard wife). It's a tale of hopeless love (sad love triangle......more

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