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Synopsis

AD 60: The flame of rebellion that has been smouldering for twenty years of Roman occupation has flared into a conflagration that will consume the land and all who live in it. There is no going back. The Boudica has been flogged and her daughters raped and her son has burned a Roman watchtower in an act of blatant insurgency. This is the time to act - but to crush the legions for all time, Breaca must do more than lead her army in the greatest rebellion Britain has ever known. She must find healing for herself and for the land, and for her eight year old daughter, who has taken refuge on Mona - which is under seige by Rome. Colchester is burning and the Romans have been driven out of London. Amidst fire and bloody revolution, the Boudica and those around her must find what matters, now and for all time.

Author's Comment

This is the final book in the Boudica: Dreaming series although probably not the final book within which we will meet the surviving characters. Some of those return again in Rome: The Emperor's Spy, although not always obviously at first.

But here, in Spear, we see how close we came to ridding ourselves of Rome: if we had won that last battle - the world would be a very different place. I was asked to write a 'what if' she had succeeded for the BBC History magazine -the first piece of fiction they have ever published.  That same short story is in the back of the paperback edition of the Emperor's Spy and brings together the characters of both books under different circumstances. It's not a complete look forward - the world today would be such a different place if she had won and if Britain had remained a tribal nation under shamanic influence -  but it was immense fun to write.