The Homecoming

by Norah Lofts Book 2 in the The Suffolk Trilogy series.

First published 1975

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After years of campaigning and captivity in Spain, Sir Godfrey Tallboys returns to Knight’s Acre battered by war and accompanied by Tana, the Moorish woman who saved his life. Tana is also his mistress and is pregnant with his child. At home, Sybilla has aged under the strain of poverty and responsibility, struggling to preserve the estate and raise the family while Godfrey was absent.
Tana’s arrival turns military survival into domestic conflict. Gratitude, jealousy, legitimacy and inheritance become inseparable as the household tries to absorb a woman whose presence exposes the distance between Godfrey’s adventurous life and the costs paid by those he left behind. Against the unsettled background of fifteenth-century England and the wars of the Iberian frontier, Lofts makes Knight’s Acre a contested home whose future depends as much on women’s endurance as on knightly prowess.