Boudicca aka Boadicea!

[Spedius]

My alltime favourite Boudicca book is The Eagle and The Raven, by Pauline Gedge....the description of the slaughter of her people had me in tears more than once...
Spanning from the generation of Caradoc through to Boudicca....it's well written and extremely evocative......well worth reading....
[url:uhmctur3]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385270380/104-7255506-0504746?v=glance&n=283155[/url]
regards
Arthes

Ave Arthes,

Thank you for your message, welcome to the thread.

Great link, it produced 25 reviews, check them out.

I too have Pauline Gedge's "The Eagle and the Raven" in my collection. My book was published by Penquin in 1981, ISBN 0-14-00.5374-3, 828 pages, with an evocative cover illustration by George Underwood.

The back cover says:-

"They were a people fashioned out of myth and legend.

Arrogant and proud they were, and their own masters. Their women were skilled in sword, their children fighters, their priests steeped in old and powerful rituals. Among them walked Caradoc, Aviragus, lord of life and death, and Boudicca, magnificent queen, and fierce and terrible warrior.

And then Rome turned its iron-lidded gaze on Albion, and these men and women were doomed to fight, and run, and fight again."

There follows three reviews:

"A big book in all senses of the word, which I find gripping and deeply moving in the reading, and haunting afterwards" - Rosemary Sutcliff

"Bravely done" - Financial Times

"It makes you want to keep turning over the pages" - Daily Telegraph

"About Pauline Gedge

Pauline Gedge is the award-winning author of the bestselling titles Child of the Morning, The Twelfth Transforming, Scroll of Saqqara, House of Dreams, House of Illusions and The Eagle and the Raven. Her superb ability to bring ancient civilisation to life has gained her millions of fans world-wide. Pauline Gedge lives in Alberta, Canada."

Attached is an alternative cover for her book.

I have enjoyed reading and recommend this book.

Vale

M. Spedius Corbulo