The book was so good, l am almost afraid the series won’t do it justice. I have not seen it, even though it looks good. I discovered that the book had been made into a mini series as well. I could not put the book down once l started reading. Tom’s story is intertwined with Aliena’s and Phillip over 3 generations. Lives are interwoven, love is gained, and lost. Lying, and even murdering to achieve their goals. Both men try to destroy Prior Phillip, the keeper of Kingsbridge every chance they get. He teams up with Archbishop Waleran, who despite being a man of the cloth is as evil as they come. William also seeks to destroy Aliena and her family for his family disgrace, and dedicates his life to ruining hers, as well as anyone else he feels does not fear him. He starts off by making a life long enemy by the name of William (whose marriage proposal has just been rejected by Aliena, and stops the future home he had been building for them) when he demands to be paid for work already done on the house.

The story centers around a simple mason by the name of Tom Builder who is obsessed with building a cathedral in his lifetime. Since this is such a huge multi generational story, l will just give you the gist of it. This was a period of anarchy, no law or order as a civil war raged on in the battle to become King or Queen of England. Thomas, the then Archbishop of Canterbury. It weaves an intriguing story based on the real life sinking of the White Ship up to the assassination of St. The Pillars of the Earth is set in the fictitious town of Kingsbridge, England in the 12th century. My eyes got so dry, and l used a ton of eye lubricant drops :-). It took me roughly four days to consume this novel. I was hooked, read that super quickly, and bought my copy. Recently, l did a post on the Notre-Dame basilica in Marseille, and once again she mentioned that l should read the book since l seemed to love cathedrals. I told her l would check it out and promptly forgot about it :-). She had actually mentioned the novel to me a few months ago after l had done a post about a cathedral. I must mention Nadine at thesophicatedlife.

LinkedIn Kingsbridge Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth:

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