Son of Dust: by H.F.M. Prescott

Author: H.F.M. Prescott

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Fulcun Geroy, the Catholic lord of a fief on the borders of 11th-century Normandy, falls in love with the wife of a rival at the court of William the Conqueror and becomes entangled in an adulterous affair. The liaison has fateful political, religious, and romantic consequences, as the Hamlet-like Fulcun struggles with his love for God and his passion for his lover. Hilda Prescott’s riveting historical novel is an artful and morally serious tale of the ultimate redemption of a forbidden love.

Physical Info: 0.9" H x 7.02" L x 5.06" W (0.87 lbs) 436 pages
Publisher: Loyola Press
US SRP: $ 13.95 US
Pub Date: January 2007

Fulcun Geroy, a brooding young lord in eleventh-century
Normandy, is torn between his love for God and his obsession with the wife
of a rival at the court of William the Conqueror. He becomes entangled in
an adulterous liaison that triggers a frightful storm of warfare and revenge.
H. F. M. Prescott’s riveting historical novel explores the stark choices that
arise when religious passion clashes with erotic desire. It is an artful and
morally serious tale of wounded lovers climbing a difficult path of renunciation,
purification, and healing.

H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972) studied history at Oxford and embarked on a
successful writing career in the mid-1920s. She is best known for her historical
novels, including Son of Dust and The Man on a Donkey, and for Spanish
Tudor: The Life of Bloody Mary, a biography of Mary Tudor.

Son of Dust: by H.F.M. Prescott Author: H.F.M. Prescott
	Item#	Type	isbn	Price
	9780829423525	Paperback	0829423524	10.95
Fulcun Geroy, the Catholic lord of a fief on the borders of 11th-century Normandy, falls in love with the wife of a rival at the court of William the Conqueror and becomes entangled in an adulterous affair.

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