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Manda Scott is a veterinary surgeon, writer and climber. Born and educated in Scotland, she now lives in Suffolk with two lurchers and too many cats. She began her literary career as a crime writer - her debut, Hen's Teeth, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and she was called 'one of Britain's most important crime writers' by The Times. DREAMING THE EAGLE, the first book in the Boudica series, is also available in Bantam paperback
This compelling historical novel, the second of the series, is less about Boudica herself (Boudica, or Boadicea, was an honorific - the famed warrior queen, at least in Scott's reading, was called Breaca) than about her brother Ban, one of the many fictional characters who are brought to life in this page-turner. Ban, now renamed Julius Valerius, has risen to the rank of decurion in the Roman army and is determined to wreak vengeance on Caradoc, Breaca's lover, for what he imagines is Caradoc's betrayal of his people. When Caradoc and several of his family are captured during a brave attempt at insurgency against the invading Romans and taken to Rome, and Julius is given the task of driving their cart to their execution, it seems as though his wish will be granted. But he and the emperor Claudius have not taken into account the supernatural powers of the Celtic 'dreamers'... Manda Scott has taken factual sources such as Tacitus as the basis for this excellent sequel and has woven a rich tapestry of entirely believable fiction around it.(Kirkus UK)
