Description
<p><span><span>Shakespeare's Witches tell Banquo, "Thou Shalt 'Get Kings Though Thou Be None". Though Banquo is murdered, his son Fleance gets away. What happened to Fleance? What Kings? As Shakespeare's audience apparently knew, Banquo was the ancestor of the royal Stewart line. But the road to kingship had a most inauspicious beginning, and we follow Fleance into exile and death, bestowing the Witches' prophecy on his illegitimate son Walter. Born in Wales and raised in disgrace, Walter's efforts to understand Banquo's murder and honor his lineage take him on a long and treacherous journey through England and France before facing his destiny in Scotland.</span></span></p>
Story Behind The Book
On a hot, summer afternoon while attending my Aunt Lois' funeral in South Carolina, I noticed a young boy at the cemetery in a state of extreme grief. Suddenly a voice in my head said, "This is the beginning of the story." Nothing happened for a couple of years, but when it finally did the funeral scene ended up halfway through the book. Also, it was sleeting and winter. That is the mystery of writing.
Reviews
<p><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">"</span><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">This book reads like a ballad. It could be set to music even. You can hear the words sing on every page. You can almost sing them. When the author describes a North Carolina mountain waterfall, you hear it, smell the moss on the rocks, breathe in the mountain air.It's pure poetry and a joy to your senses."</span></p>
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