A Hollow Crown
Helen Hollick
(William Heinemann - Random House Books)
ISBN: 0-434-00491-X
(Arrow
- paperback)
ISBN: 0-09-927234-2
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A Hollow Crown, a novel of Saxon England - being a prequel to Harold the King The year is 1013, and Emma of Normandy is to marry King Æthelred of England. It is a marriage that is as doomed to fail as Æthelred's entire reign. But Emma is to find her own happiness when Cnut seizes the English throne... 
A Hollow Crown was published in August 2004, completing the historical sequence leading up to and culminating inHarold the King - the story of the Battle of Hastings. “An enjoyable
read … the pages kept turning” |