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The Reckoning

Nov 24, 2025 3:02 PM

Author:Sharon Penman

The Reckoning

This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with Here be Dragons, continued with Falls the Shadow and is now completed with The Reckoning. The major figures in The Reckoning are the splendid dominant King of England, Edward I, and The Great Llewellyn II, Prince of Wales. His long love affair and eventual marriage with Ellen, daughter of Simon De Montfort, provides the strong emotional interest in the book, while the political machinations of Edward against the Welsh and the Scots, together with Llewellyn's struggle to control the recalcitrant Welsh Princes provides the political and military drama.

Reviews

Its beauty and power and the sheer pleasure that it gives are indestructible

—— Sunday Times

Poignant and beautiful...alive with a vividly unique vision of colliding cultures and enduring love

—— The Times

A blazing masterpiece... I cannot think of so moving a love story in modern fiction

—— Washington Star

One feels as if one had dug up buried treasure...an epic cultural change that seems more immediate than this morning's headlines... An extraordinary novel

—— New York Times

A beautiful novel

—— Paul Theroux

One of the most gripping and touching stories I have ever read

—— Peter Snow , Week

This is a gem

—— Mirror

Stands out from the mass of chick-fic like a poppy in a cornfield . . . Glitters with insight

—— Nova

Praise for Lisa Jewell

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Addictively readable

—— The Times

Terrific

—— Sunday Times

A joy . . . a fun summer read

—— Guardian

Tackles serious issues with humour - proving that chick-lit can be intelligent, interesting and huge fun

—— Sunday Express

A triumph

—— Hello

Top marks. Fantastic

—— Heat

Moving and intelligent

—— Independent

Magnetic, unpretentious and bursting with one-liners

—— Cosmopolitan

Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction

—— Glamour

Fans of chick-lit will understand when I say that this is a book you simply disappear into

—— Sunday Telegraph

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