River of Destiny. Barbara Erskine

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Название River of Destiny
Автор произведения Barbara Erskine
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       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in 2012

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

      Copyright © Barbara Erskine 2016

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Cover photographs © Charles Smith/Corbis (heron); Duncan George/Getty Images (horizon); Guy Edwardes/Getty Images (trees); Jason Edwards/Getty Images (reeds); Shutterstock.com (branch)

      Barbara Erskine asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007455652

      Version: 2017-09-07

       Dedication

      For Jon, who keeps the wheels on the wagon

       Epigraph

      … rich swords lay … eaten with rust, as they had lain buried in the bosom of the earth for a thousand years … the princes who placed their treasure there had pronounced a solemn curse on it which was to last until doomsday: that whoever rifled the place should be guilty of sin, shut up in dwelling-places of devils, bound in bonds of hell, and tormented with evil …

      Beowulf

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Author’s Note

       Keep Reading Barbara Erskine’s Novels

       Keep Reading Sleeper’s Castle

       About the Author

       Also by Barbara Erskine

       About the Publisher

In the age of the Anglo-Saxons it is the year AD 865

       Prologue

      The woman was watching, flattened against the wall of the house, her eye to a knothole. She hardly dared breathe as she watched the scene unfolding inside.

      With