Dreaming the Eagle : A Novel of Boudica, The Warrior Queen

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 2003. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9. 463 Pages. On sale date June 2003. Consists of uncorrected page proofs. Map of Western Europe and Tribal Britain AD 32. A novel of Boudica, the Warrior Queen. (The Boudica Trilogy) This is the story of Boudica: the last defender of Celtic culture; the only woman openly to have led her warriors into battle; the only British warrior to stand against Imperial Rome and triumph. But it is also the story of the two men she loved most: the warrior Caradoc and her half-brother Ban. At twelve she killed her first warrior. At twenty-one she defended her land against invasion by the world's most powerful nation. At forty, she led her people in a bloody revolt---and became a legend. Manda Scott is the author No Good Deed. This is the story of Boudica: the last defender of Celtic culture; the only woman openly to have led her warriors into battle; the only British warrior to stand against Imperial Rome and triumph. But it is also the story of the two men she loved most: the warrior Caradoc and her half-brother Ban. A staggeringly imaginative invocation of Britain's secret history. Scott has created a fictional universe all her own, but close enough to our reality for it both to warm and break our hearts.