Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. World Without End is followed by the third of Ken Folletts Kingsbridge novels, A Column of Fire. Even today, misinformation abounds, and some doctors still believe that it’s unsafe to wear a tampon in the ocean. World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

At one point, scientists were dismissive, assuming that periods had no purpose to the body. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into. The science of menstruation, something that over half the world does for months and years on end, has come a long way. Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Hannahs new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church the other will pursue an impossible love. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge.

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