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Boudica: Dreaming the Hound

By: Manda Scott
Narrated by: Jerome Flynn, Philip Stevens, Liza Goddard
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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.

AD 57: much of Britannia has been under Roman occupation for more than 10 years, and tribes pay costly tithes to the emperor in return for the right to continue living on their own lands.

On the sacred isle of Mona, the Boudica, or ‘Bringer of Victory’ as Breaca has long been hailed, now knows for certain that her lover, Caradoc - betrayed, captured and kept hostage in Rome - will never return to her. She leaves Mona, where she and her warriors have been waging a guerrilla war, and takes the fight to the Eceni heartland where it is needed most. With her are her children, Cunomar and Grainne, and her best friend from childhood, ex-lover and dreamer Airmid.

But the once proud Eceni are a downtrodden and defeated people who are forbidden on pain of death to worship their old gods. Across the sea in Hibernia, Breaca’s half-brother, Bán, is struggling to make peace with his fractured past. Soon, provoked by Roman aggression, he will sail to Britannia where he and Breaca will face down the might of Rome in the bloodiest revolt the Western world has ever known.

©2005 Manda Scott (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing

Critic Reviews

"The best in the current crop of novels about Rome, its empire and its victims...never sentimental and always tough-minded." (The Independent)

"A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and the heroics of humanity." (Jean M. Auel)

"Scott has teased a few facts from the ancient record to create an absorbing story from history and myth." (Publishers Weekly)

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captivating storytelling

this series of books is the equivalent of binge watching all 8 seasons of GOT. can't write mire must get book 4 and begin.

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stunning! consciousness shifting! rip roaring!

could not put this down. I lived every moment t with them. the characters and what they stand for sing through me.

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an ensouled tale.

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this writing is ensouled. meaning it comes from a deeper place than the discursive mind / dissociated mentation. and we need this especially in the 'cultureless culture' of the global west, in order to come back to life, to cultural shapes that are relational, that perceive and celebrate and draw their coherence from the deeper patterns of living intelligence that comprise the earth system!

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