The Warrior’s Princess

Barbara Erskine

HarperCollins Publishers, Dec 28, 2008 - Fiction - 560 pages

The powerful new timeslip novel from the worldwide bestselling author of Lady in Hay, in which the fate of a young woman becomes entwined with the extraordinary history of a Celtic princess.

When Jess is attacked by someone she once trusted, she flees to her sister’s house in the Welsh borders to recuperate. There, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child.

Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caratacus, king of the Brtitish tribes, and the invading Romans. The proud king is captured and taken as a prisoner to Rome with his wife and daughter, the princess Eigon.

Jess is inexorably drawn to investigate Eigon’s story, and as the Welsh cottage is no longer a peaceful sanctuary she decides to visit Rome. There lie the connections that will reveal Eigon’s astonishing life – and which threaten to reawaken Jess’s own tormentor...

Barbara Erskine’s ability to weave together the past and the present makes this a tremendous novel of Roman and Celtic history, passion and intrigue.

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User Review  - soliloquies - LibraryThing

A dual time novel in which Jess (recently attacked) uncovers the story of Eigon, daughter of the legendary Caractacus. The book is set in Wales and Italy, as we flit between the two women's stories ...

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User Review  - Kasthu - LibraryThing

I usually love timeslip novels like this. A first-century Celtic princess’s life parallels that of a modern-day woman, who escapes to Wales to avoid someone who attacked her in London. Later Jess, the ...

About the author

A historian by training, Barbara Erskine is the author of thirteen bestselling novels that demonstrate her interest in both history and the supernatural, plus three collections of short stories. Her books have appeared in at least twenty-six languages. Her first novel, Lady of Hay, has sold over three million copies worldwide. She lives with her family in an ancient manor house near Colchester and in a cottage near Hay-on-Wye.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Warrior’s Princess
• Author: Barbara Erskine
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008
• ISBN: 0007287208, 9780007287208
• Length: 560 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Romance / Historical / General; Fiction / Small Town & Rural