The Pillars of the Earth

It begins with a curse, a song and a hanging, and builds into a magnificent adventure no reader will ever forget. The Pillars of the Earth is, without doubt, a masterpiece--at once a tale for all time and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a bygone age.

The worldwide best-selling epic of family drama, violent conflict and vaulting ambition set around the building of a great cathedral. --back cover