"A gripping family saga. . . . Page-turners are rarely written by
scholars of the 15th century, but Castor wears her learning
admirably lightly. Blood and Roses is nothing less than a ripping
yarn." --The Indepedent (London) The Wars of the Roses tore England
asunder. Over the course of thirty years, four kings lost their
thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their
heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with
gold. Yet until now, little has been written about the ordinary
people who lived through this extraordinary time. Blood and Roses
is a gripping, intimate story of one determined family conducting
everyday business against the backdrop of a disintegrating society
and savage civil war. Drawing on a rare trove of letters discovered
in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs
the turbulent affairs of the Pastons through three generations of
births, marriages, and deaths as they single-mindedly worked their
way up from farmers to landed gentry. It is a remarkable chronicle
of devotion, ambition, and survival that brings a remote and hazy
era to vibrant new life.
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