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It is late summer in 1215. Adam, a landless man from Lincolnshire, overhears the hushed talk in the fields where he toiled daily. A conflict had broken out between the king and the barons over the former’s disregard of a charter that was meant to limit his power and protect his subjects from punitive taxes. Things were quickly escalating as the barons moved to challenge the king’s authority, recruiting peasant laborers from the villages to fight for them. In retaliation, the king was bringing in mercenaries from overseas to help him face the rising rebellion. Before he knows it, Adam finds himself among the many villagers summoned to fight for their barons. However, unlike the king’s hired hands, there is no pay, gear, or honor for them, only obligation. What will be their fate in the looming war? Find out in Writ and Hunger: A Chronicle of Endurance by Ryan Duncan.
Writ and Hunger by Ryan Duncan is a must-read for lovers of historical novels flavored with war, action, adventure, drama, and suspense. Using vivid imagery and deliberately paced, raw prose, Duncan takes readers back to early thirteenth-century England, immersing them in its culture and lifestyle. The story unravels through Adam’s lens, showingthe daily life of the peasants of that time, and the circumstances they faced under the feudal system. Apart from a brutal social system that only recognized wealth and status, they also had to deal with an oppressive political system that considered them mere property or tools. Life for them was a harsh, endless loop of survival. Duncan exposes the divide between the upper and lower classes, the cost of war, the role of religion, and the harsh realities of life under the feudal system in the medieval era.
