Fortune’s Wheel
(The Meonbridge Chronicle, Book 1)
By Carolyn Hughes
Publication Date: 13th November 2018
Publisher: Riverdown Books
Print Length: 324 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
How do you recover from the havoc wrought by history’s cruellest plague?
An immersive story of loss, resilience, and the fragile ties that bind people together.
It’s June 1349. In Meonbridge, a Hampshire manor, the plague has gone at last, leaving behind anguish and bewilderment. Many have lost their lives, amongst them Alice atte Wode’s beloved husband and Eleanor Titherige’s widowed father. Even the family of the manor’s lord and his wife, Margaret de Bohun, has not entirely escaped.
But, for the survivors, new tensions arise. With so many of their fellow workers lost, those left now realise their labour is more precious––surely, they can demand higher wages and dictate their own lives?
The old order between lord and tenants is beginning to crumble.
When the tensions deepen into violence and disorder, the men––lord and villagers alike––seem unable to find a resolution. So the women––Alice, Eleanor and Margaret––must step forward to find a way out of the conflict that threatens to tear Meonbridge apart.
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Carolyn Hughes
Carolyn Hughes has lived much of her life in Hampshire. With a first degree in Classics and English, she started working life as a computer programmer, then a very new profession. But it was technical authoring that later proved her vocation, word-smithing for many different clients, including banks, an international hotel group and medical instruments manufacturers.
Although she wrote creatively on and off for most of her adult life, it was not until her children flew the nest that writing historical fiction took centre stage. But why historical fiction? Serendipity!
Seeking inspiration for what to write for her Creative Writing Masters, she discovered the handwritten draft, begun in her twenties, of a novel, set in 14th century rural England… Intrigued by the period and setting, she realised that, by writing a novel set in the period, she could learn more about the medieval past and interpret it, which seemed like a thrilling thing to do. A few days later, the first Meonbridge Chronicle, Fortune’s Wheel, was under way.
Six published books later (with more to come), Carolyn does now think of herself as an Historical Novelist. And she wouldn’t have it any other way…
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