The armour of light - Ken Follett (Kingsbridge #4; First UK edition)

The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International number one bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.

REVOLUTION IS IN THE AIR

1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty commercial empire. In France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power, and with him, France's neighbours are on high alert.

KINGSBRIDGE IS ON THE EDGE

Unprecedented industrial change sweeps the land, making the lives of the workers in Kingsbridge's prosperous cloth mills harder. Hungry manufacturers cut down wages for machinery as enclosing jobs obsolete and tearing families apart.

TYRANNY IS ON THE HORIZON

Now, as international conflict nears, a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people - including spinner Sal Clitheroe, weaver David Shoveller and Kit, Sal's inventive and headstrong son - will come to define the struggle of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression.

Taking the reader straight into the heart of history with the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, The Armour of Light is master storyteller Ken Follett's most ambitious novel to date.