Dreaming the Bull - Softcover

Boudica, “She Who Brings Victory.” Born to the Eceni, a tribe of dreamers and warriors, she is her people’s last hope: a copper-haired warrior who can lead her tribe in battle—and speak the language of the sacred dreamers. But in the face of a battle half won, Boudica has retreated with the living and wounded. Because across a river is the world’s mightiest army. And with the invaders comes a strange, bloodthirsty warrior astride a pied horse—a man who seems to know the Eceni as well as they know themselves. For just as destiny marked the young queen for greatness, it was destiny, too, that drove Boudica’s half brother to a far different path. Now brother and sister will stand on opposite sides of a brutal war of attrition, each unknowingly determined to see the other dead.

Manda Scott is a veterinary surgeon, writer and climber, not necessarily in that order. Born and educated in Scotland, she now lives in Suffolk with two lurchers and too many cats. Hailed by Fay Weldon as “a new voice for a new world,” she is also known as a crime writer. Her first novel, Hen’s Teeth, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and her most recent, No Good Deed, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel. The Boudica books are her first historical novels. They are, she says, the books she was born to write.
From the Trade Paperback edition.