{"id":1094,"date":"2020-06-19T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/?page_id=1094"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:59:07","slug":"the-siege-of-caerlaverock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/?page_id=1094","title":{"rendered":"The Siege of Caerlaverock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Siege of Caerlaverock<\/em> is a medieval adventure for 8-13 year olds and set during the real life siege of Caerlaverock Castle in July 1300. Check out the book trailer<\/a>! A heraldic poem about the siege survives and told me exactly who was there and how the events progressed. As a Middle Ages aficionado, I was so very drawn to the story and really wanted to write about this, especially if I could weave in an unusual perspective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gorgeous cover, juxtaposing the ruin of Caerlaverock with the shadows of what happened there. I am especially chuffed about the cover quote from one of my very favourite authors.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That perspective is my main character, Ada. She is a laundress in the castle, but her fried Godfrey is an eight-year-old page boy, destined to become a knight one day. When they stumble across a terrible secret, they have a choice: stay silent and survive or be courageous and risk it all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the King of England is on the march across the border, and soon all the castle-dwellers at Caerlaverock find themselves besieged and embattled. Unluckily for Ada, the most dangerous enemy of all is within the castle walls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is nowhere to hide!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caerlaverock Castle is a ruin you can still visit today. It’s Scotland’s only triangular Medieval fortress and its name means ‘Fort of the skylarks’.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Siege of Caerlaverock is a medieval adventure for 8-13 year olds and set during the real life siege of Caerlaverock Castle in July 1300. Check out the book trailer! A heraldic poem about the siege survives and told me exactly who was there and how the events progressed. As a Middle Ages aficionado, I … Continue reading The Siege of Caerlaverock<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1094","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1094\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbarahenderson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}