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The Ruling Passion
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Published by Herbert Adler
The Ruling Passion is a new novel by one of our most accomplished writers of historical fiction. It recounts the story of King Edward II, one of the most sensational episodes in English history, whose underlying theme is the often-troubled relationship between sexuality and duty in the royal family.
Prince Edward – later to become Edward II – was the only surviving son of Edward I, one of England’s greatest warrior kings, whose ambition to unite Britain through the subjugation the Irish, Welsh, and Scots, near-bankrupted the realm. Not only was Prince Edward unsuited to carry through his father’s military ambitions, but his defiant resistance to every pressure to abandon his passionate relationship with the Gascon warrior Piers Gaveston was to bring England to the brink of civil war. The Ruling Passion is a story of a relationship pursued to destruction.
The Ruling Passion is David Pownall’s 11th novel and marks his return to the medieval period. His earlier novel, The White Cutter, set among the Masonic fraternity in the Middle Ages, enjoyed considerable critical and commercial success.
ISBN 978-1-84289-050-9
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