Hengest's Tale
1966
First Published
3.96
Average Rating
151
Number of Pages
Hengest recalls the events that divided his loyalties between Jutes, Danes, and Frisians in fifth-century northern Europe and caused him to die in a foreign land hated as an oath-breaker and murderer.
Avg Rating
3.96
Number of Ratings
28
5 STARS
25%
4 STARS
50%
3 STARS
21%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
0%
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Author
Jill Paton Walsh
Author · 31 books
Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St. Anne's College, Oxford. From 1959 to 1962 she taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School. Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award, 1970, for Fireweed; the Whitbread Prize, 1974 (for a Children's novel) for The Emperor's Winding Sheet; The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1976 for Unleaving; The Universe Prize, 1984 for A Parcel of Patterns; and the Smarties Grand Prix, 1984, for Gaffer Samson's Luck. Series: * Imogen Quy * Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
