![]() ![]() ![]() It’s 1422 and France is currently engaged in the Hundred Years’ War, a conflict with England over the succession to the French throne. Chen that I realised how little I know about Joan of Arc she’s someone I’ve always been aware of, obviously, and I knew a few basic facts but apart from where she has appeared in the background in other historical novels, I’ve never read anything where Joan is the main focus of the book.Īfter a brief description of the political situation in France in the early 15th century, the novel opens in Domrémy, the small French village where Joan was born. It wasn’t until I started reading this impressive new novel by Katherine J. ![]() You, who are your kingdom’s future, and I who am no one. Against all odds, fate has brought us together. ![]()
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