VIII by H M Castor Epub Download
This book tells the story of Hal, a boy of extraordinary talents. Astonishing warrior skills. Sharp intelligence. And a fierce sense of honour and virtue. He believes he is destined for greatness. His father needs he would disappear.
Haunted by the ghosts of his household’s violent previous, Hal embarks on a journey that leads him to absolute energy, and brings him nose to nose along with his demons.
Destined for greatness - plagued by demons. VIII (Eight) is the untold story of Henry VIII, a gripping examination of why he turned from a charismatic teenager to the merciless tyrant he grew to become in later life. Hal is a young, handsome and gifted warrior, who believes he has been divinely chosen to lead his people. However throughout his life, he is haunted by a ghostly apparition, and, as soon as he rises to energy, he turns to homicide and rapacious cruelty.
Think of Henry VIII and the chances are that what comes to thoughts is the overweight, bearded, imply-looking man captured within the 1537 portrait by Tudor court docket painter Hans Holbein. Before the six wives, before his grotesque life ran out of control, Henry was a lean, handsome, contemporary-confronted young man. Type, athletic and principled.
What happened? That central query, what turned him into a monster, is the inspiration for historian and author Harriet Castor's glorious younger grownup novel VIII. The story, advised within the first-particular person, has a dramatic and evocative opening as the boy Hal (it made it easier for creator H.M. Castor to image him as Hal to get inside his head) flees into the Tower of London to escape attainable assassination.
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