The Wind from Hastings

Name: The Wind from Hastings
Rating: 3.9 (569 reviews)

by Morgan Llywelyn Book 8 in the Celtic World series.

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Edyth of Mercia is drawn into the dynastic politics of eleventh-century Britain through her marriage to the Welsh king Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and, after his death, to Harold Godwinson. Her life connects the competing royal houses of Wales and England as Edward the Confessor’s succession becomes a contest among Harold, William of Normandy and other claimants.

When Harold is crowned and William invades in 1066, Edyth watches personal loyalty become inseparable from the fate of kingdoms. The defeat at Hastings leaves her responsible for children with claims to both English and Welsh power, and the novel imagines the choices of a woman largely lost from the record as conquest destroys the political world in which she learned to survive.