The Armour of Light
- Authors: Ken Follett
- Series: Book 4 in the Kingsbridge series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Historical
- Rank:Top 300 in Best Historical Thrillers Books on AmazonTop 300 in Best Suspense Thrillers on Amazon
- Rating: 4.4 based on 39,040 reviews
- Release Date: September 26, 2023
- Print length: 752 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International no. 1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge in the 18th century, with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.
Revolution is in the air
1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with dissent rife, France's neighbours are on high alert.
Kingsbridge is on the edge
Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingsbridge's prosperous cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernization and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs obsolete and tearing families apart.
Tyranny is on the horizon
Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people - including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal's inventive and headstrong son - will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression...
Taking the reader straight into the heart of history with the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, The Armour of Light is master storyteller Ken Follett's most ambitious novel to date.
More than 175 million copies sold worldwide. Published in over eighty territories and thirty-seven languages. The international no. 1 bestselling phenomenon returns.
Praise for The Armour of Light
This epic canvas holds a mélange of relationships which all work out exactly as they should while Follett brings Kingsbridge up to the Regency era.
An effortlessly engaging and entertaining read
The plague scenes are expertly handled. Where Follett excels is in telling a yarn
A treat for fans of historical fiction.
An impressive and immersive epic.
Bold in scale and meticulously researched
Follett's storytelling skills make their adventures riveting
We can’t stop turning the pages... . it is Follett’s generosity and adeptness with historical detail and nimble depictions of technical matters that set this book, like its predecessors, above mere historical melodrama.
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