THE EDGE OF LIGHT

The Edge of Light is a novel about Alfred the Great, his family, and the times he lived in. It is a sweeping saga of the desperate struggle waged by the English against the pagan Danish invasions of the ninth century, which brought the Saxon kingloms of England to the very verge of dissolution. It is a novel about one of England’s greatest heroes, the only king in over eleven centuries of monarchy ever to be called “the great.” And the strength of the novel lies in the character of Alfred: heroic yet profoundly human, a man who ultimately triumphs mainly because he absolutely refuses to give up.

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