Katherine
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4.8 • 17 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
"Exhilarating, exuberant, and rich," Katherine is an epic novel of a love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family (Austin Chronicle).
Set in the vibrant fourteenth century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II—who rule despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king’s son, falls passionately in love with the already-married Katherine. Their affair persists through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption.
Anya Seton's vivid rendering of the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Lancaster makes Katherine an unmistakable classic.
“An inspiration and the benchmark by which I judge historical novels.”—Alison Weir
Customer Reviews
Years ago
I read this during my senior year of high school, I had moved six months before COVID and hadn’t had the time to integrate before we all went home, by the time senior year started on a semi- schedule basis, we were social distancing and I was painfully shy. I would sit in the library during lunch and read to fill up time. I picked this book up by chance & it completed changed my life. I love this novel, and the details are so lovingly put together with accuracy. I’m going into my senior year of college now, and this book influenced me to get a degree from the English department at my school.