Cynthia Harrod-Eagles – författare

Makt och anseende är vad den dominerande och hårdnackade fårfarmaren Edward Morland eftersträvar mest av allt. Därför gifter han bort sin ende son i ett arrangerat äktenskap som kommer att bli upprinnelsen till Ätten Morland.

Sonen Robert idealiserar sin nya brud Eleanor, som är fattig men av förnäm börd och står under förmyndarskap av den inflytelserika familjen Beaufort. Men i hemlighet förtärs hon av en brinnande kärlek till Richard, hertigen av York …

Mot bakgrunden av de oroliga åren i 1400-talets mitt, när inbördeskriget Rosornas krig utkämpas i England, utvecklar sig denna passionerade saga om krig och våldsamma begär.

Begynnelsen är den första delen i brittiska Cytnhia Harrod-Eagles ”Morland-dynasti”, som hittills har fått 36 delar. Serien översattes till svenska på 80-talet, men finns nu äntligen tillgänglig igen, och passar perfekt till alla som älskade Sagan om isfolket.

A fatherless girl grows up a virtual prisoner in the shabby backwater of Kensington Palace, despised by her relations, bullied and insulted by her foolish mother''s evil genius. Only the core of stubbornness in her nature sustains her as she waits for the day of deliverance - the day she will become Queen of England.She is Victoria; this is her story, recorded in her own words in the last troubled year of her life.With humanity and humour the Queen Empress of half the world looks back over eighty crowded years, remembering domestic crisis and public triumph, war, revolution and the fall of dynasties; remembering most of all the great and abiding love that illuminated every aspect of her life.This is the autobiography Queen Victoria might have written, and reveals the private woman behind the public mask - quick tempered, proud and incurably honest; shy, vulnerable and always, indefatigably, amused.

1919. As the euphoria of the Armistice fades, the nation counts the cost: millions dead or disabled, unemployment, strikes and shortages. As prices and taxes rise, it becomes harder to remember what the war was for.Teddy tries to recreate balance but then a trip to France to see the place where Ned fell has unforeseen consequences; Polly, grieving for Erich Kuppel, persuades her father to send her to New York. Despite Prohibtion, the great city, pulsing with life, promises her a fresh start; Jessie and Bertie, detained in London by Bertie''s job, long to start their new life together; Jack becomes a pioneer of civil aviation, but when the company fails he''s faced with unemployment, with a growing family to support.The generation that saw things no man should see must find relief from their own memories. A new world is struggling to be born out of the ashes; but as long as the music lasts, they will keep on dancing.

1918: German troops flood back from the Eastern Front for an all-out assault in France, before the Americans can join the war. The under-strength British retreat, and for the first time the real possibility of defeat comes home to a shocked nation. At the front, Bertie struggles to bring his battered battalion out safely, while at home Jessie, secretly carrying his child, knows that sooner or later she must face her family''s censure. At Morland Place, Teddy braves local opinion to bring German POWs to work on the land, little knowing how close to home the consequences of his decision will strike. And the terrible news arrives that Jack has been shot down.Men are falling, each one the King of someone''s heart. For the Morlands, only love, faith and compassion will keep the family safe until the longed-for days of peace . . .

It''s 1917 and the Allies are determined to finally defeat a weakened Germany - everything is building up to the summer''s Big Push. Germany strikes back with U-boat attacks to starve England out, giant aeroplanes to bomb London, and the cunning withdrawal to the Hindenberg Line. Every Briton must do his bit, and the Morlands are involved at every stage: fighting and nursing in France, stoically surviving at home - and finding love where they can along the way.Continuing the great saga of the Morland dynasty, The Foreign Field carries its members into a new set of conflicts and tests their courage to the limit.

"Brilliant, a definite page turner. They combine real historical events with fascinating fictional characters.The twenty-three volumes of the Morland Dynasty series has been completely repackaged in the most elegant style, using contemporaneous artwork for each period. This wonderful series opens with the back drop of the Wars of the Roses with the marriage between Eleanor Morland and a scion of the influential house of Beaufort. It is a union which establishes the powerful Morland dynasty and in the succeeding volumes of this rich tapestry of English life, we follow their fortunes through war and peace, political upheaval and social revolution, times of pestilence and periods of plenty, and through the vicissitudes which afflict every family - love and passion, envy and betrayal, birth and death, great fortune and miserable penury...The Morland Dynasty is entertainment of the most addictive kind.