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Barbara Softly - Author
This is an adventure about loyalty, political conflict and survival, following a young person separated from home and caught up in the Royalist defeat. Its historical setting and disguise-driven escape create a strong sense of danger.
A superbly told historical novel for young people set against the real-life background of Christchurch and rural Hampshire at the time of the Civil War. The bloody conflict is at its height when Nicholas Lambert's father is shot as a traitor to the King's cause. Young Nicholas flees his home in order to join the Royalist Army, leaving his little sister Katharine behind. Six years later, when the Royalists are finally defeated at Worcester, Nicholas is a fugitive and his life is in danger. Together with two friends he seeks shelter in his old home; it is much changed and so, he thinks, is Katharine. After the house is searched by Cromwellian soldiers hunting for the young king Charles II, the three fugitives, disguised as servants, make for the Hampshire coast.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an adventure about loyalty, political conflict and survival, following a young person separated from home and caught up in the Royalist defeat. Its historical setting and disguise-driven escape create a strong sense of danger.
Be ready to discuss the shooting of Nicholas’s father, the danger facing fugitives, soldiers searching homes, family separation and the upheaval caused by war.
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