The Humpherys Family

Knight's Acre
Record Added: 1/12/2016
Author 
Series The Suffolk Trilogy #1
Setting England
Topic Historical Fiction
Publisher Doubleday Publishers
ISBN 034018356X   Year 1975
Age Adult   Pages 252
Description Printed dustjacket
  
Sir Godfrey Tallboys was a knight-errant, famous for his success at tourneys, but far from wealthy. In an attempt to make his fortune he left his wife Sybilla and travelled to Spain to fight a minor crusade against the Moors. But treachery lurked in that far distant land and soon Sir Godfrey became a prisoner, a helpless slave in a hostile country. Back in quiet Suffolk he was reported dead.

And so it fell to Sybilla to fend for the whole family. The modest house of Knight's Acre became the scene of much hardship and poverty, and only someone with Sybilla's determination could triumph at last. But Sybilla was to find that life still held many surprises for her.
Notes
The Suffolk Trilogy:
  • Knight's Acre
  • The Homecoming
  • The Lonely Furrow