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Martin, Rhona

Gallows Wedding

Corgi, 1979

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Year of publication
1979
ISBN
055211037X
Place of printing
London
Author
Martin, Rhona
Publishers
Corgi
Edition
1st Pbk Edition
Keyword
Fiction England
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

This is the strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time. Hazel, a peasant girl marked by the witches' brand and a dangerous beauty, loves Black John, an outlaw and aristocrat, whom she rescues from the gallows. Together they struggle to survive a world in which brutal death awaits at every corner, and stumble along a fateful collision course towards a harrowing climax. Rhona Martin's remarkable first novel won the Historical Novel Prizeaward in 1977, its first year, in competition with 150 entries.