 1988 Canadian paperback edition |
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| Author | Edward Rutherfurd |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Century Hutchinson |
| Publication date | 7 May 1987 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 897 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7126-1447-8 (first edition, hardback) |
Sarum (or laterly titled Sarum: The Novel of England) is a work of historical fiction by Edward Rutherfurd and first published in 1987. It tells the story of England through the eyes of several families in the English town of Salisbury, stretching from prehistoric times to the 1980s.
Characters
The families, whose lives the story tells, are as following (in modern spelling):
- Forest
- Wilson
- Porters
- Mason
- Shockley
- Godfrey
Setting
The story covers major points of British history, the chapters are as follows, with a description of the major event that takes place next to it: Old Sarum
- Journey to Sarum (prehistoric Britain)
- The Barrow (the first foreign settlers arriving in Britain)
- The Henge (the building of Stonehenge)
- Sorviodunum (the arrival of the Romans)
- Twilight (the fall of the Roman Empire/arrival of the Saxons)
- The Two Rivers (arrival of the Vikings/uniting of England)
- The Castle (Norman England)
New Sarum
- The Founding (the founding of New Sarum/building of Salisbury Cathedral)
- The Death (the Black Death)
- The Rose (the Rule of Lancaster)
- Journey From Sarum
- The New World (The Reformation)
- The Unrest (The English Civil War)
- The Calm (Georgian England)
- Boney (Battle of Trafalgar)
- Empire (the British Empire)
- The Henge II (World War I/the selling of Stonehenge)
- The Encampment (arrival of American Troops during World War II)
- The Spire (Modern day Salisbury)
