
The Lantern Bearers
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Johanna Ward
These are dark days indeed for Aquila, a young Roman officer who returns to his family villa to find all that he loves destroyed by the invaders. He escapes slavery only to learn that his sister has married a Saxon, and the knowledge fills him with bitterness.
It takes many years of hardship and strenuous fighting under the Roman-British leader Ambrosius before Aquila finds a measure of contentment, learned partly from the kind and gentle Brother Ninnias, partly from the loving loyalty of his wife Ness, and partly from an encounter with his sister's son, who is fighting with the enemy.
This exciting chronicle, full of stirring incident and bitter conflict, brings to vivid life the turbulent period before the Dark Ages.
©1986 Rosemary Sutcliff (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Great story, great for sleeping!
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Another wonderful book!
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All around great story
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I almost left my phone in my car after the first rainy night’s listen. There are, sometimes, enough real hurts in our world, that we don’t wish to hear of too real a pain for the newest character to meet us on the pages of a fresh story. His hurts resonated forcefully enough to unsettle my own old wounds.
Next morning, I’d forgotten my desire to throw the book across the room. A bracing sip of strong coffee and a half hour for the story to win its place above a distracted morning’s thoughts, then to find its feet.. and I felt myself well and truly caught up.
I won’t say this is among the best listens… or actually. Yes, I will say that. It isn’t perfect. It’s frustrating even in some ways. But there’s something real, and something quite beautiful about it. How else would a story of pain and honor and the stumbling best effort of one man, and of an entire people, sum up the pain of dusk or the hope for morning? Here is honor. Foolish manliness. And something encouraging about it, despite and because of how real the unfortunate parts of this story and this character are.
Some older works deserve to be forgotten in the mist. This one, I hope is remembered and discovered by more people for a while yet. There’s something refreshing about a well crafted story, where the main sense of triumph, has more to do with the man we walked alongside through it, than in how he helped save his imperiled kingdom or universe.
Beautiful and sad, like the best and worst of people.
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love it
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Excellent
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It was a great adventures book!
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Typical Rosemary excellence
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Beautiful Story Beautifully Read
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Great historical fiction
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