Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
Preloved hardback edition in very good condition. No torn or missing pages, dust jacket intact. Sylvia is a story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in 1212. It is perhaps the strangest true event to have taken place in European history. I have enjoyed the digging that uncovered it - buried in a dark corner of times long out of mind. It is also a story of how, throughout some of the darkest medieval times, the redeeming power and strength of a young woman's love and intelligence p