1066. Edward the Confessor is dead, England is at peace and Hereward, son of Eorl Leofric of Mercia, returns from exile with his wife and child after nine years fighting as a mercenary in Scaldemariland. But his lands have been ceded to his nephew, Morcar; peace does not last, and when Norman invaders murder his foster-brother, Hereward turns from thegn to rebel leader. As the Normans tighten their grip and uprisings fail, men flock to join his band, the Fen-wolves, at Ely, the Isle of Refuge. Soon the whole Norman army is on its way, resolved to destroy Hereward and, with him, the last centre of English resistance. But even when the Isle falls by treachery, the fight continues . . .
Narrated as if by Hereward himself, Fen-wolf is an intimate portrait of this most enigmatic and uncompromising of heroes, a man prepared to lose everything rather than submit to tyranny.
Narrated as if by Hereward himself, Fen-wolf is an intimate portrait of this most enigmatic and uncompromising of heroes, a man prepared to lose everything rather than submit to tyranny.
