![]() ![]() Then she meets the handsome, virile Simon de Montford and things change!! Before too long, Eleanor and Simon were married in secret and the first of their children arrived. Before she was 17 years old she was a widow, and she had made a vow of celibacy and was considering becoming a nun. Bearing in mind that I read the Penman last year and may have forgotten some of the details, I have to say that the two authors agreed on most of the historical facts, but in Henley's book, I'm surprised that there was any time to go off to war with all the frolicking and debauchery that was going on between the knights and the maidens, and Simon and Eleanor.Įleanor was married off at a very young age (i.e 9 years old) to one of the most influential men in England (William Marshall). The main reason why I wanted to read this book is to see how the two different types of authors treated the same story. ![]() (Falls the Shadow is the second book in the Welsh Trilogy that starts with Here Be Dragons and concludes with The Reckoning). These are the same characters from Sharon Penman's Falls the Shadow which I read and loved last year. This book is a romance novelist's take on the love story between Simon de Montford, Earl of Leicester, and Eleanor Plantagenet, beloved sister of Henry II. ![]()
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