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 - to read it is to discover our history, to learn about ourselves and our heritage.

Above all, it is a world of passion and courage and spectacular, heart-felt heroism pitched against overwhelming odds. Breathtakingly good, it reveals the best and worst in all of us. Manda Scott has created a fictional universe all of her own, but close enough to our reality for it both to warm and break our hearts. In the company of a supreme storyteller, the reader is plunged into the unforgettable world of tribal Britain in the years before the Romans came: a twilight world of Dreamers and the magic of the gods a world where horses and dogs and the landscape itself become characters in their own right where warriors fight for honour as much as victory. Boudica is a staggeringly imaginative invocation of Britain’s secret history. Contributor: Manda Scott Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld. Gloriously imagined, Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle recreates the beginnings of a story so powerful its impact has survived through the ages, recounting the journey to adulthood of Breaca, who at twelve kills her first warrior, and her sensitive, skilful half-brother Ban, who carries with him a vision of the future that haunts his waking hours. Dreaming the Eagle, the first book in the Boudica series, is also available in Bantam paperback.

It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush a vibrant, complex civilization and replace it with the laws, taxes and slavery of the Roman Empire. In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome.

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