The Armour of Light

Follett’s storytelling skills make their adventures riveting * The Times * Deploying a substantial cast of characters, Follett unrolls a familiar history of religious and political ferment and turns it into accessible and enjoyable fiction * Daily Mail * This triumphant saga, begun almost thirty years ago with The Pillars Of The Earth, moves across England to Scotland, France and the New World * Sunday Express * A sumptuous slice of swashbuckling Elizabethan romance * Mail on Sunday * The characters, both fictional and real, are fascinating, and the Tudor period setting holds its own special allure. This is a novel that fans of historical fiction will savour and cherish * The National * A huge read, perfect for long winter nights * Choice * You won’t be able to put it down * Independent * Enormous and brilliant . . . this mammoth tale seems to touch all human emotion – love and hate, loyalty and treachery, hope and despair. This is truly a novel to get lost in * Cosmopolitan * A thundering ride through history * Peterborough Evening Telegraph * Follett has once more lit the touch paper of English history and allowed it to explode across the pages in in all its vivid technicolour * Lancashire Evening Post *