With the deft touch of a master storyteller, Laura Carlin recreates the dangerous world Alwin must navigate as they flee the comforts of home for an entirely new life' Sophie Ward, author of Love and other Thought Experiments READERS' PRAISE FOR REQUIEM FOR A KNAVE: 'Hugely engaging' 'A gem of an historical novel with beautiful atmospheric writing' 'I loved Laura's first book and this is another fun, dark historical novel full of twists and turns. Will the revelations to come destroy everything that came before? 'Effortlessly transports the reader to fourteenth-century rural Derbyshire and the plight of young Alwin. These are dark times, and through them, Alwin must shine a light. The journey to discovering who he really is will lead Alwin into great danger and great passion. Rosamund, a young woman travelling the same path, has much to conceal too. but he is not the only one with secrets to keep. When Alwin later joins up with a group of pilgrims, he must hide his identity.
On the journey, Alwin falls in with a band of violent and marauding soldiers and is witness to their terrible crimes.
'Carlin can tell a good story' Observer 'A book of great beauty and lyricism' On Magazine After the death of his mother, young Alwin of Whittaker leaves the only home he has ever known to seek answers about his unknown father through a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. From the author of The Wicked Cometh comes a dark, page-turning tale of passion and romance in the darkest of places.
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