A review by caterinaanna
The Conquest by Elizabeth Chadwick

3.0

So-so historical novel of the annoying sort where there are two distinct batches of people linked by family ties: the initial heroine dies half-way through and the attention shifts to the next generation. So not a single story, but not enough generations for it to count as a saga. It's pretty gory in places: is it a rule in historical fiction that the further back one goes the more bloodshed there has to be? There is the odd clunky intrusion of historical detail, but most of the book manages to show it without info-dumping. OK, but not in the Philippa Gregory league.