“World without End” by Ken Follett
This novel is the follow-up to Ken Follett’s masterful & immensely popular epic “The Pillars of the Earth” and is avaialable for £2.99 when you get the Times Newspaper this week.
It is the story of four children, who on the day after Halloween in the year 1327, slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. However Their lves change forever when they see two men killed in the forest.
As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end, the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love, all this takes place against the backdop of The Black Death and The Hundred Years War.
Follett’s first novel “The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral, and this novel set two-hundred years later sounds just as good so I would like to read it. I would also like to read The Pillars of the Earth too.
