Tracey Warr – new novel out this week

Tracey Warr will be talking at the festival about her first novel, Almodis: The Peaceweaver, which is set in this region. Her second novel, The Viking Hostage, is published this week.

Set in late 10th century France and Wales, The Viking Hostage tells the intertwining stories of three women living through turbulent times of Viking raids, Christian conversions, and struggles for power across Europe at the turn of the millennium. Sigrid is a Norwegian sold into slavery in the French Limousin, stubbornly clinging to her pagan identity. Aina is a rich heiress, betrothed as a child to a man who does not offer her the adventure she craves. Adalmode is the daughter of the Viscount of Limoges, whose father has forbidden her love for a young man imprisoned in his dungeon for a great crime. Their stories question and tangle with the nature of human nobility and of freedom in the highly stratified, unequal, and often brutal society of early medieval Europe.

Come and her Tracey talk at the festival about her inspirations for writing historical fiction – Sunday 12 October 16h30 – 18h00 in Parisot library.