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.