A new novel of historical fantasy set in 15th C. England...
Julian Plectrum of
Chester is a minstrel who has grown up in Cheshire and lived there all his
life. At the age of fourteen he made a lifelong friend of Stephen, son of a
wool and textile merchant, whom he saves from drowning. He meets Porcull, an
older hermit who lives on Stephen’s estate, and who sparks in him the need to
travel afar, to London. Which he does, but only to end up in a lawsuit with an
olde-tyme song-stealing music industry shark. His adventures of three years
time between Chester and Penzance bring him renown and connections. These
connections are a good thing to have, once he’s met his true love, Mary, the
daughter of a Chester carpenter, and a budding puppet-mistress.
On his last return from
Penzance he happens right into the battle of Shrewsbury, between King Henry IV
of England and his once aide-de-camp, now turned rebel, Henry Percy, and his
allies among the Cheshire gentry, the Scots, and the Welsh. Julian happens upon
his long-left brother Simon among the wounded and dying at day’s end. Returning
to Chester with Simon, the rebellion for the moment crushed, he marries Mary
and they begin their new life with a trip to the new home in Penzance. They’d
be all too happy to settle right down, but Stephen has asked them to come along
with him on a trip to France.
IF I SHOULD LIVE SO LONG
is the first in a planned series of three works of historical fantasy. Julian
and his friends are common folk, but the breezes of war, and the complications
of seeming peace, are never far from them, all too often, closer for comfort
than they’d like.
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