Rider on a White Horse
by Rosemary Sutcliff

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Summary: 4 Stars

Rosemary Sutcliff writes beautifully on a sentence level, and so she gets away with things in this historical novel that most writers couldn't. It's a deeply romanticized account (written, after all, in 1959), and it largely avoids any discussion of the real issues of the war. In particular, I found the author's admiring portrayal of Cromwell off-putting. Though small-scale action scenes work well, in larger battles the author seems to lose control of her material, retreating into descriptions of maneuvers that may as well have been copied from a rather dry textbook rather than giving the reader a vivid story.

Having said all that, the characters are appealing and there are some lovely images. This book strikes me as a foundation, and I hope more modern writers have gone further with the subject matter.

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