and sometimes in our work here, I feel as if we've somehow entered that layer of compressed time ,prised open that life, a single day even, with its morning, and evening, and its blue sky and its horizon.We've opened just one of the millions and millions of windows hidden in the ground' "So when we dig deep into the earth under our feet ,and fall all that is left of that man or woman, I try to remember that what I am seeing and handling is a huge and endless compression of lives. The rich tapestry of different people that formed the English : Celts,Romans,Angles,Saxons,Jutes,Danes,Normans ,Flemish,German and Italian merchants, French Huguenots and in more recent times the Irish and Jewish communities in London and other big citiesĪs an archaeology Professor puts it at the end of the book: Incredible men and unforgettable ,often extremely sensual, women enliven the pages of this work as you gain more knowledge about England and in the last chapter the message of the book is described succinctly.
There is not a dull moment and this should really awaken any interest you may have in history
This epic work really does bring history alive in your as Rutherford moves from chapter to chapter effortlessly tracing the history of the remarkable city London and 5 remarkable families. In 2005, the City of Salisbury commemorated his services to the city by naming one of the streets leading off its medieval market place 'Rutherfurd Walk'. He is also a Patron of the National Theatre of Ireland (the Abbey Theatre) in Dublin. He has two children.Įdward Rutherfurd is a Life Member of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, the Salisbury Civic Society, and the Friends of Chawton House, which is located in Jane Austen's village and dedicated to the study of women writers. He currently divides his time between New England and Europe. His books have been translated into twenty languages.Įdward has lived in London, New York, New Hampshire and Ireland. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSSKA, a novel of Russia LONDON THE FOREST, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury.
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