Belle's Song
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Beschreibung des Verlags
When Belle meets Luke, son of an alchemist and Scribe to the famous poet Chaucer, she is determined to travel with him to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. She hopes for a miracle: that her father will walk again. She also hopes to atone for her own part in his accident.
It is a time of unrest across the country and the young King Richard II is just hanging on to his throne. A malign character on the pilgrimage suspects Chaucer of treason and slowly winds Belle into a political intrigue. At the same time, the impulsive Belle is drawn towards both Luke and to Walter, the wealthy son of a Knight. But Walter himself is in love with Luke...
As the uprising against the King starts to draw pace and the web of intrigue around Belle and Chaucer tightens, Belle and her friends must risk everything to save their country and themselves...
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Belle, the 15-year-old daughter of a 14th-century bell founder, would do anything to change that tragic day when her carelessness resulted in crippling her father. In an effort to atone, Belle practices mortification of the flesh, rubbing her legs raw and bloody with a pumice stone; when this doesn't feel like enough, she joins Geoffrey Chaucer himself and his fellow pilgrims on their way to the tomb of St. Thomas, hoping for a miracle to heal her father. In this retelling of The Canterbury Tales, Grant (the Perfect Fire trilogy) takes up Chaucer's funny, bawdy style, as she draws Belle into the raucous world of his wandering pilgrims. Along the way, Belle meets two romantic suitors Luke, the alchemist's son, and Walter de Pleasance, the knight's squire both of whom add satisfying romantic encounters to her story. Filled with political intrigue, vivid historical detail, and poignant moments, this homage to Chaucer's beloved verse should delight both adult fans of the Tales and teens who will have likely first encountered them in English lit classes. Ages 12 up.