Falls the Shadow - book club edition

by Sharon Kay Penman

Second book of the trilogy relating the historical relationship between England and Wales. The story of two men, Henry Plantagenet III and Simon de Montfort, a landless Frenchman aristocrat granted an earldom by the same king against whom he ultimately led a rebellion. His downfall as chronicled with extraordinary detail and sensitivity by the author was both dramatic and tragically self-inflicted. A gripping story, well written. 

Book is cream-colored boards with blue cloth spine stamped with gold lettering; maps on front and rear end papers of England and France circa 1237 A.D. A Book Club Edition with previous owner's library label on inside fly. Jacket is in fine condition illustrated with a 13th century French manuscript illumination.