I find him entirely congruent - his outward behaviour is different from his inner voice. The reader is shown the inner workings of an Anglo-Saxon king. It's quite a challenge to the author, and they have to be particularly adept to make the story successful. It doesn't matter to me that it is only one view. After all, it was one of the few reviewed that was set near my era of interest. But in 1999, I joined the Historical Novel Society, saw a review of Flight and thought it was worth reading. I just about kept up with the Arthurian fiction, and that was about it. I read this book after many years of hardly reading fiction at all. These are very much my thoughts about the book, rather than a review. I had to write this on my blog, as I realised it was likely to be rather long for Carla's comments.
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