Pagan's Daughter

At sixteen, Babylonne has endured six bloody sieges and a lifetime of violence at the hands of her rigid, heretical aunt and grandmother. When at last she decides to run away, her goal is to fight – and perhaps die – in the continuing war between France and her native Languedoc.But who is the mysterious priest spying on her? What secrets can he tell her about the father she never knew? And can he really be trusted, in a world of intrigue and combat where no young woman is safe no matter where her allegiance lies?Full of energy and life, this novel is peopled with hugely appealing characters, a sense of mystery and drama and a brilliantly evoked sense of time and place. A tour de force from an exceptional writer and storyteller.