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  • The Revolt of the Eaglets

  • By: Jean Plaidy
  • Narrated by: Jilly Bond
  • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (20 ratings)

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The Revolt of the Eaglets

By: Jean Plaidy
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
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News of Thomas à Becket’s martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom, and the blame is laid at the feet of Henry Plantagenet, King of England. Two years later, with Becket canonised, Henry’s position is precarious: punished at the Pope’s insistence for his part in Becket’s death, he now also has an enemy in his Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, after her discovery of his longstanding infidelity with Rosamund Clifford. Eleanor is determined to seek vengeance, so, with King Philip of France, she encourages her sons to conspire, both against their father and each other.

Much embattled, the old eagle Henry struggles to fend off both rebellion and the plots of his aggressively circling offspring.
©1977 Jean Plaidy (P)2010 Isis Publishing Ltd
Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Royalty King France England Pope
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A dynamic story, but let down by the narration

I read this book many years ago and it become one of my all-time favourite historical fiction works and depicts a fascinating period of mutal French and English history.
Regrettably, the narrator seemed to stuggle in portraying the characters in the story. I found it was perhaps most let down when she imitated a French accent (such as portraying Eleanor of Aquitaine) and then pronouncing French locations in English.

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