What a truly impressive book that I didn’t like very much! The premise of this book is looking at a turning point in Anglo-Saxon England right after 1066 as a kind of apocalypse for those involved. Some recently books I’ve read (Gone with the Wind; The Grapes of Wrath) also treat the lives of the primary characters as if they are facing down the apocalypse….this too is a theme in a lot of other books like Doomsday Book and many different encounter narratives by indigenous groups. […]