Adventure, excitement, honour, love. This book has it all. It is the sort of story that lifts your heart to greater things and carries it, galloping at full speed through forests, past castles and battle grounds, with a frosty winter air blowing in your face.

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It is an adventure filled with character-forming dialogues and dilemmas. It has the thrill of a good story, and the layers of complexity that only a master-story teller can compose. The characters are wonderful and truthful.

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It is a historical novel based in England during the war of the roses. Although you only learn a little about the facts of that war, you learn a lot about how people thought, how they lived, and how they made their choices. Leave our own day behind for a few hours and enter a world where British nobility ruled the land, where men lived by he sword, when people slept perched on tree branches. See a world full of valour and vice, where men make their own fates with their own characters and courage.

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Unfortunately, even though the story of this book will captivate any modern child, the language is a bit antiquated and may be difficult to understand. This can be overcome once the reader reads a couple of chapters and becomes engrossed in the story. I would recommend reading this book aloud as a family or listening to it as an audiobook to help you get into the story. It is well worth the effort. Children of every age will love this book. The adventure and romance appeal to boys and girls alike.