Edith Pargeter

The angel, eternally alighting with arched wings and delicate, stretched feet, spread his hands palms outwards towards the radianee, and bowed in ceremonious humility the youthful, narrow head> with its long gold hair still erect and quivering from his flight. The shuddering hum of his great wings...

CHAPTER I November 1230: Burgh-next-AyIsham; Westminster Richard came to Burgh in the steely twilight of a .November day, blown in at the gatehouse on a withering east wind, that scoured torn wisps of blacker cloud before it across a vast, forbidding, marbled greyness of wintry sky, and stung...