This novel is set in Ireland during the reign of Henry VIII. Eleven-year-old Gerald FitzGerald is the dynasty's sole survivor and together with his protectors, his English tutor, Thomas Leverous, and his young aunt, Eleanor, he has to flee from the king's agents in Ireland. The warring Irish chiefs and lords agree to put aside their differences and unite to save the last Geraldine. But their efforts become entangled in the machiavellian net of European politics which destroys the tentative steps towards Irish unity, jeopardises the Geraldine's life and threatens to reveal the dark secret that both unites and divides Eleanor and Thomas.
Marino 1995
Translated into: Estonian
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