A gripping biography of the Paston family set against the turbulent background of the Wars of the Roses from bestselling historian Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves

The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deathsAs they made their way in a disintegrating world, the Paston family in Norfolk family were writing letters - about politics, about business, about shopping, about love and about each other, including the first valentine.

Using these letters - the oldest surviving family correspondence in English - Helen Castor traces the extraordinary history of the Paston family across three generationsBlood & Roses tells the dramatic, moving and intensely human story of how one family survived one of the most tempestuous periods in English history.



Format Häftad Omfång 384 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Faber & Faber Utgivningsdatum 2005-06-02 ISBN 9780571216710