The Fated Sky

The Fated Sky

Cover of The Fated Sky
Author Henrietta Branford
Cover artist Peter Sutton
Country UK
Language English
Series N/A
Subject Vikings -- Fiction
Genre Historical fiction
Publisher Hodder Children's Books
Publication date
1996
Media type Book
Pages 151
ISBN 978-0-340-66102-4
OCLC 37988574

The Fated Sky is the title of a historical novel for young adults by English author Henrietta Branford, first published in Great Britain in 1996 by Hodder Children's Books. Set in Norway and Iceland during the Viking period, it depicts the stirring but bleak existence of Dark Age Europeans at a time of insecurity and constant threat from raiders. The story follows a young woman called Ran from the time she loses her mother in a wolf attack, and a subsequent attempt to kill her as a human sacrifice, to her escape with a blind harper, Toki, to a new life in Iceland. Even there however the threat of sudden violence hangs over small and isolated farming communities. The book does not dwell on bloodshed but is honest about the hardship, unpredictability and cruelty of the period, showing even sympathetic central characters as not immune to painful death. Moral choices are also at times difficult.

The book was noted as one of the ten best "romance" novels for young adults in 2000.[1]

References

  1. Zvirin, Stephanie (September 15, 2000). "Top 10 YA Romances". Booklist. 97 (2): 234. ISSN 0006-7385.


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