Brilliantly written. Detailed history and lineage of characters that tickle the imagery. It bugs me that he stated Lot turned into a pillar of salt but the other detail was superb.

Quite an epic. A little too slow-moving for my tastes but extremely well done saga of the Sarum/Salisbury area from prehistory to the recent past.

I've read this several times in book form. Delighted to find it in a much more convenient form. (900 pages is a lot to hold onto). If you like a good saga this is the ultimate, covering 10,000 years of family history. Yes, it's long but I love seeing family characteristics crop up or change over the centuries.

The history of Sarum and British culture is very interesting and well detailed. The story woven within it is tedious

Rutherford recreates living history for his readers by using just enough fictional overlay to bring the genuine stories to life. This is a work that belongs to the world, but could bring fire to ashen history classrooms. Bravo to Edward Rutherford.

It is overall ok and worth your time - you can just skip over the longwinded and boring parts where the characters fall flat or where there are simply too many characters introduced that end up not having to do anything with the later story anyway. Will definitely stay away from the other books though.

Excellent blend of research and storytelling. Follow the descendants of several families from the Ice Age to 1985 in an entertaining and fact filled tale.

I love these characters.