But I just couldn't have done that with Sarum. Even if I don't like a book I usually still force myself to read to the end. I cannot remember the last time I didn't read a book all the way through. For a book that started so awesome it sure did flatline. The characters were lacking in depth and dimension and their stories were uninspiring. Rutherfurd's writing style was not very elegant and I only got halfway through before I had to give the book away. By Chapter 2 however, my excitement was blown out of the water. I enjoyed the first chapter of this book so much that I was excited that there would be 1400 pages more of it. I expected maybe a couple 4 stars and mostly 3 stars, but that is not what I found. I have to admit, I was more than a little surprised when I came to this book on Goodreads to leave a review and saw all the glowing reviews. In 2005, the City of Salisbury commemorated his services to the city by naming one of the streets leading off its medieval market place 'Rutherfurd Walk'.

He is also a Patron of the National Theatre of Ireland (the Abbey Theatre) in Dublin.

He has two children.Įdward Rutherfurd is a Life Member of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, the Salisbury Civic Society, and the Friends of Chawton House, which is located in Jane Austen's village and dedicated to the study of women writers. He currently divides his time between New England and Europe. His books have been translated into twenty languages.Įdward has lived in London, New York, New Hampshire and Ireland. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSSKA, a novel of Russia LONDON THE FOREST, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury.

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