![]() ![]() ![]() Bàn becomes the Druid whose eventual return to the Celts is Boudica's salvation.ĭreaming the Eagle is full of brilliantly realised, luminous scenes as the narrative sweeps effortlessly from the epic - where battle scenes are huge, bloody, and action-packed - to the intimate. Dreaming the Eagle is also the story of the two men Boudica loves most: Caradoc, outstanding warrior and inspirational leader and Bàn, her half-brother, who longs to be a warrior, though he is manifestly a Dreamer, possibly the finest in his tribe's history. ![]() She longs to be a Dreamer, a mystical leader who can foretell the future, but having killed the man who has attacked and killed her mother, she has proven herself a warrior. It is 33 AD and eleven-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica), the red-haired daughter of one of the leaders of the Eceni tribe, is on the cusp between girl and womanhood. She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumph. Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.īoudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word "boudeg"). ![]()
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