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Geason, Susan

 
9781921049361: Flight of the Falcon

Synopsis

Unusual book

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Sybilla de Saint-Valery, the daughter of a nobleman and soldier, has been staying with relatives in the castle of the Duke of Normandy. When news of an imminent English attack reaches the castle, Sybilla must undertake a dangerous journey home to her mother and the family estate. But these are treacherous times to be on the road. En route, she is kidnapped by her father's enemies, who demand that Sybilia's mother hand over the deeds to the Saint-Valery estate in exchange for her daughter's safe return. With only her faithful hound, Hannibal, and falcon, Merlin, to help her, can Sybilla escape her captors and reach Saint-Valery before her ancestral home is lost? Set in eleventh-century Normandy, this adventure novel is an intriguing glimpse of the life of a young noblewoman in the early Middle Ages.

Biographie de l'auteur

Susan Geason was born in Tasmania, grew up in Queensland, and now lives in Sydney. Most of her professional life has centred on politics and writing, including positions as a researcher in Parliament House, Canberra and Cabinet Adviser in the NSW Premier's Department. Since 1988 she has worked as a freelance writer and editor, including a six-year stint from 1992-1997 as literary editor of Sydney's Sun-Herald. Her crime fiction for adults has been published around the world in several languages. Her first book for teenagers, Great Australian Girls (1999), was very successful, and was followed by a companion volume, Australian Heroines (2001). Her most recent books are All Fall Down and Death of a Princess. She recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.

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