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Strong historical fiction and powerful romantic drama set in border country during Elizabethan times - forbidden passions and family loyalties; heresy and witchcraft, but at the heart of it, the burgeoning love of a young girl. The year is 1578 and Queen Elizabeth 1 is on the throne. Sixteen year old Beatie, the daughter of a North Country farmer is defying her family over the matter of her proposed marriage to her cousin Hugh. She is too busy being the elder daughter and watching over her family - overseeing the kitchen work; riding her horse, Saint Hilda, and most importantly keeping a watchful eye out for the first sign of marauding Scots from over the border.The family live in Barrowbeck Tower - a stronghold which should keep out invaders. But the Scots do invade and Beatie has to push at the face of one of them who appears - courtesy of a grappling iron - at an upper window. It is a young face and one that Beatie will never forget. It is the first Scot she has injured, probably killed. Next day, Beatie finds a dirty, bleeding body in the old hermit's hut in the wood, and discovers that it belongs to the Scot she pushed from the window. Through guilt she determines to nurse this enemy back to health, despite the terrible danger to herself which could have her burned at the stake. A smouldering tension of love and intimacy develops between patient and carer, but that isn't the only possible relationship for Beatie. She is also growing very close to the young parson, John Becker.This is an exceptionally atmospheric novel, written in the first person through the voice of this feisty Elizabethan teenager. The reader is immediately taken on a journey to Elizabethan England - the country, not the city - and the smells and sounds are vividly brought to life. Maggie Prince draws a vivid picture too of the wild landscape of the Border Country and the eternal teenage struggle to break free of childhood and lead an independent life.… (mais)
Raider's Tide is a historical YA novel set in the 1500s, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Beatrice lives at Barrowbeck Tower near the Scotland border, in a community which is constantly on the look-out for Scottish raiders. Her father is a drunk highwayman and her mother a dreamer, so the running of their household and farm falls primarily to Beatrice and her sister, Verity. She and Verity are capable of this - and of organising defences against attacks from raiders; Beatrice sees no need for a husband. But she is now 16 and and marriage is no longer a safely distant prospect. However, defying her family over her proposed marriage to her cousin becomes the least her of problems when she pushes a Scottish raider trying to scale the tower from an upper window and then stumbles across him in forest, seriously wounded. Feeling responsible and guilty, she decides to nurse him back to health, despite the huge personal risk involved - her actions mean she is a traitor to her own people.
This is a coming-of-age story about secrets, defying conventions and risking your life to save someone else. There is something very immediate and accessible about Beatrice's first-person, present-tense narrative, and I found it very easy to identify with her. Beatrice and Verity are delightfully intelligent and independent, and this is an engaging account of women who refuse to conform to conventions and expectations. Raider's Tide's strength is also the vivid picture it conveys of life in a border community. It does a wonderful job of capturing not only the landscape, the sorts of people inhabiting it and their culture, but the little details - jobs, clothes, windows, attitudes, manners of speech and defences. These things help bring the 16th century to life.
I fell in love with this when I was Beatrice's age, despite having accidentally read the sequel first and hence knowing what happened. It captured my imagination. (As a teenager, it was the book I most wanted to see adapted into a film). Both it and its sequel, North Side of the Tree, have remained amongst my favourites. ( )
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The northern counties from time to time had to withstand invasion by the organised forces of Scotland, but their chief embarrassment was caused by a system of predatory incurious which rendered life and property insecure. -- Victoria County History of Cumberland
They have taken forth of divers families all, the very rackencrocks and pot-hooks. They have driven away all the beasts, sheep and horses... -- The Silver Dale, by William Riley
On 14 April... the Scots did come... armed and appointed with gavlockes and crowes of iron, handpeckes, axes and skailinge lathers. -- Border Papers, Scottish Records ii 171
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For Chris, Deborah, Daniel, and for my mother, whose landscape this is, with love and thanks.
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I jumped up, jolted out of my daydream.
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Then I look towards the window for signs of a new day.
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Strong historical fiction and powerful romantic drama set in border country during Elizabethan times - forbidden passions and family loyalties; heresy and witchcraft, but at the heart of it, the burgeoning love of a young girl. The year is 1578 and Queen Elizabeth 1 is on the throne. Sixteen year old Beatie, the daughter of a North Country farmer is defying her family over the matter of her proposed marriage to her cousin Hugh. She is too busy being the elder daughter and watching over her family - overseeing the kitchen work; riding her horse, Saint Hilda, and most importantly keeping a watchful eye out for the first sign of marauding Scots from over the border.The family live in Barrowbeck Tower - a stronghold which should keep out invaders. But the Scots do invade and Beatie has to push at the face of one of them who appears - courtesy of a grappling iron - at an upper window. It is a young face and one that Beatie will never forget. It is the first Scot she has injured, probably killed. Next day, Beatie finds a dirty, bleeding body in the old hermit's hut in the wood, and discovers that it belongs to the Scot she pushed from the window. Through guilt she determines to nurse this enemy back to health, despite the terrible danger to herself which could have her burned at the stake. A smouldering tension of love and intimacy develops between patient and carer, but that isn't the only possible relationship for Beatie. She is also growing very close to the young parson, John Becker.This is an exceptionally atmospheric novel, written in the first person through the voice of this feisty Elizabethan teenager. The reader is immediately taken on a journey to Elizabethan England - the country, not the city - and the smells and sounds are vividly brought to life. Maggie Prince draws a vivid picture too of the wild landscape of the Border Country and the eternal teenage struggle to break free of childhood and lead an independent life.
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However, defying her family over her proposed marriage to her cousin becomes the least her of problems when she pushes a Scottish raider trying to scale the tower from an upper window and then stumbles across him in forest, seriously wounded. Feeling responsible and guilty, she decides to nurse him back to health, despite the huge personal risk involved - her actions mean she is a traitor to her own people.
This is a coming-of-age story about secrets, defying conventions and risking your life to save someone else. There is something very immediate and accessible about Beatrice's first-person, present-tense narrative, and I found it very easy to identify with her. Beatrice and Verity are delightfully intelligent and independent, and this is an engaging account of women who refuse to conform to conventions and expectations.
Raider's Tide's strength is also the vivid picture it conveys of life in a border community. It does a wonderful job of capturing not only the landscape, the sorts of people inhabiting it and their culture, but the little details - jobs, clothes, windows, attitudes, manners of speech and defences. These things help bring the 16th century to life.
I fell in love with this when I was Beatrice's age, despite having accidentally read the sequel first and hence knowing what happened. It captured my imagination. (As a teenager, it was the book I most wanted to see adapted into a film). Both it and its sequel, North Side of the Tree, have remained amongst my favourites. (