Boudica: Dreaming The EagleManda ScottLabel: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)Description: In AD 60 Boudica war leader of the Eceni led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush a vibrant complex civilization and replace it with the laws taxes and slavery of the Roman Empire. Gloriously imagined Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle recreates the beginnings of a story so powerful its impact has survived through the ages recounting the journey to adulthood of Breaca who at twelve kills her first warrior and her sensitive skilful half-brother Bán who carries with him a vision of the future that haunts his waking hours. In the company of a supreme storyteller the reader is plunged into the unforgettable world of tribal Britain in the years before the Romans came: a twilight world of Dreamers and the magic of the gods; a world where horses and dogs and the landscape itself become characters in their own right; where warriors fight for honour as much as victory. Above all it is a world of passion and courage and spectacular heart-felt heroism pitched against overwhelming odds. Manda Scott's Boudica will tell the extraordinary resounding story of Britain's first and greatest warrior queen the woman who remains one of the great female icons - to read it is to discover our history to learn about ourselves and our heritage.
