Set before the English Civil War in the late 1630s, near the village of Weme, in Shropshire, the story follows Emily Trewlawny, her Royalist farming family, and the ensuing struggle before her sea captain father returns home.
Whilst at the same time, the Pyms, a Parliamentarian family, living two miles apart, with opposite beliefs, find their friendship through circumstance lead on to their alliance against the Royalist community. Conflict ensues, involving murder and a hair-raising stagecoach ride, the ultimate showdown, when in the pursuit of a possible guilty party, when the hiding of an accused causes the inevitable conflict.
Sobre o autor
The author, a poet, artist and composer, started writing in late 2009. At the present time has written over 400 poems; completed nearly six fictional novels, Divided Majesty being his second. With the exception of inclusion in local media, the talking newspaper, earlier works have not been promoted.
His first novel was expanded from the poem, ‘Isabel and the Highwaymen’, and published as the novel, Stand and Deliver.
Poetry has since taken second place to his storytelling, which cover a variety of subjects from historic fiction to present-day fantasy thrillers with love and sometimes comic themes, all capturing the unusual aspect of life, often with tragic endings.