Company of Liars

Name: Company of Liars
Rating: 4.3 (1754 reviews)

by Karen Maitland

First published 2008

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England, 1348. As plague spreads inland, nine strangers join together on the road in the hope of staying ahead of the disease. Their company includes Camelot, a scarred seller of holy relics; Cygnus, a one-armed storyteller; musicians, a healer, a painter and his pregnant wife, and Narigorm, a cold-eyed child who reads the runes.

Each traveller is concealing something, and the strain of hunger, fear and collapsing law makes secrecy increasingly dangerous. As the group moves through a country being transformed by the Black Death, Narigorm’s unsettling influence forces hidden histories into the open and turns a journey for survival into a contest of mistrust and dread.