Waltheof

Signed, Waltheof, by command of an high and mighty

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

As well as the two marriages, the novel also explores an extramarital affair, relationships between parents and their children over more than one generation, and the friendship between Simon and Waltheof.

Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006

They are not necessarily likeable all the time - there were occasions when I would have liked to slap Waltheof for his indecision and would have liked to shake Judith out of her self-righteousness - but that makes them more real.

Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006

By page 11, said handsome young man who is Waltheof, the English earl of the back cover blurb has noticed Judith and is sufficiently attracted to her “to make him shift on the bench and adjust his braies*.”

Misleading book covers Carla 2006

By page 11, said handsome young man who is Waltheof, the English earl of the back cover blurb has noticed Judith and is sufficiently attracted to her “to make him shift on the bench and adjust his braies*.”

Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006

Waltheof and Judith are hopelessly unsuited from the beginning, despite their physical attraction to each other - theirs is a carnal marriage that begins in happiness and ends in misery.

Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006

Holy Waltheof! it was an awful sight to see him with his pale calm face, his shield upon his breast, his heavy lance before him, charging a squadron of heathen

Burlesques 2006

It focuses on two marriages, that of Waltheof, English Earl of Huntingdon, to Judith, niece of William the Conqueror, and that of their daughter Matilda to the Norman knight Simon de Senlis.

Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006

*Readers who read my review of The Winter Mantle may like to know that this is the same Waltheof.

Archive 2006-09-01 Carla 2006

The four main leads, Waltheof, Judith, Simon and Matilda are all individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006