This shift in power attracts opposition from Stephen who is the king’s Nephew who eventually ascends the throne through malicious means. King Henry, I had lost his only and direct heir chooses his daughter as his successor. The book has adopted a fictional tale around the history of the Norman Kings, starting with the fall of the ‘White Ship’ where the heir to the throne loses his life at sea while sailing from France to England. These very circumstances that shape the backdrop of the story with romance, action and political turmoil act as key drivers that take the story ahead. All the characters in the book give the reader a whiff of the middle ages, their circumstances and vulnerability. Follet brings to life characters such as Jack, the stone artist Tom, the master-builder Philip, the Prior Aliena, the town’s noblewoman Ellen, the forester alongside the antagonists who are Bishop Waleran Bigod the Hamleighs. The Pillars of the Earth is about the building of a cathedral in a fictional town in England called Kingsbridge in the 12th century.
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