Once I heard a historian who told that we are doing a big mistake when we are thinking about people who lived in past centuries. We assume that they were thinking and were feeling like we are. You can recognize a good historical novel exactly by this. 
 Anya Seton makes you understand that people at XIV century was in many aspects different from us. They had needs, they loved, they had desires, they hated, they felt fear. But they lived in different world. In world where they traveled slower, where each childbirth could be the last for the woman. Where religion was in the air and dictate principles and action. In this world rules were different therefore morality was different and human actions were different. You just can't judge these people like you judge modern people. Anya Seton give you the chance to understand these people. 
 In this book you will find many descriptions of everyday life in many social classes. Clothes, food, but also festivities, diseases. You find many building and nature descriptions. At the end of the book, you will almost feel like you would seen once this world on your own eyes.In this book you will find many descriptions of everyday life in many social classes. Clothes, food, but also festivities, diseases (of course there are also courtly intrigue, serfs riots and so on). You find many building and nature descriptions. At the end of the book, you will almost feel like you would seen once this world on your own eyes. 
 This is a story of a great love too. But that you can read in various reviews.