The Evening and the Morning: The Prequel to The Pillars of the Earth, A Kingsbridge Novel

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Yes, reading this book assures me they have, even though money still has the same greedy power it always has.

Ragna is from noble blood and finds herself in the community after she is married to one of the rich men.

Ken Follet’s fictionalized account of life during this time period, reflects a busy and industrious period in the lives of English folk.

Plot twists and historical goings-on fuel a stellar story that seeks to lay the foundational groundwork for what is to come, a sensational trilogy about a cathedral and the town that develops around it.

Don’t be intimidated by its size (913 pages) because the flow is so good that you will not even notice the time passing. Ragna has been raised with leadership skills, her noble father letting her sit as justice in the village courts over which he reigned. A young, talented boatbuilder, Edgar, feels hopeless when his family business is destroyed, and his father and the woman he loves are killed by Vikings.

Ragna is a Norman noblewoman who marries Wilwulf, the ealdorman of Shiring, and soon discovers that the customs of England are a far cry from what she is used to. The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett review; Eleven Lines to Somewhere by Alyson Rudd review" .

It's set mainly in England, with the threats of Vikings in the East and the Welsh in the West, but there are sections in Normandy, France. Bogran of the Washington Independent described The Evening and the Morning as "more of the same, with variation" relative to Follett's other books set in Kingsbridge. World Without End, the sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, proved equally popular when it was published in 2007. There are also love affairs, devotion to family, marriage celebrations, religious ceremonies, and court deliberations. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

The Evening and the Morning' is thoroughly enjoyable even if you are not familiar with the rest of the Kingsbridge series. But over the course of [many years], we see the protagonists overcome fresh obstacles and setbacks … Decisions echo down through the years. Follett has done well with his Kingsbridge trilogy, so much so that he chose to add this, a prequel, to deliver context on some much-wondered happenings in the early stages. Just when one machination was over, a new one was hatched, making for an abundance of intrigue and struggle that became harder and harder for me to tear myself away from. From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins.Who you marry is hardly ever a choice but an arrangement, there are power plays, wars, corruption and greed. It has that pastoral, everyday life feel that I came to love so much in The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. The Vikings were raiding almost annually, the area is governed by a truly evil family who even controls the church and uses that institution to advance their own power and wealth, even though they constantly make decisions that go against the welfare of the citizens of the area.