Review: Shadows in the Spring by Christina Courtenay
I'm delighted to welcome back the fabulous Christina Courtenay , bestselling and award-winning author of dual-timeline and historical fiction. We're celebrating the release of her new novel, Shadows in the Spring . It's well worth checking out. Read on! Shadows in the Spring is currently on blog tour with Rachel's Random Resources. My thanks to Rachel, and to Headline Press, for a copy. Shadows in the Spring Christina Courtenay Shadows in the Spring is an intriguing dual-timeline adventure through the ages that links the distant past with the fast-paced present. In the past, we meet Duro, former gladiator who fled Pompeii just in time before the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius destroyed any traces of his past. This allows him to claim he was now a free man, returning home to his settlement in southern Britannia. Two decades earlier, he'd been taken captive as a young boy during the failed uprising by the Iceni, his tribe. His siblings were all spread across th...
