Sarum (novel)

Sarum
Sarum first edition cover.
Author(s)	Edward Rutherfurd
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Historical novel
Publisher	Century Hutchinson
Publication date	May 7, 1987
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	1145 pp (first edition)
ISBN	0712614478
OCLC Number	15591802

Sarum (or latterly titled Sarum: The Novel of England) is a work of historical fiction by Edward Rutherfurd, first published in 1987. It tells the story of England through the eyes of several families in the English city of Salisbury, stretching from prehistoric times to the creation and development of the country of England.

Characters

The main families of Sarum are listed below:

• Forest
• Wilson
• Porters
• Mason
• Shockley
• Godfrey

This includes a Carpenter family protagonists, who are forced to flee Sarum after trying to kill a main character.

Setting

The story covers major points of British history, the chapters are as follows, with a description of the major event that takes place next to it:

Old Sarum

• Journey to Sarum (prehistoric Britain)
• The Barrow (the first foreign settlers arriving in Britain)
• The Henge (the building of Stonehenge)
• Sorviodunum (the arrival of the Romans)
• Twilight (the fall of the Roman Empire/arrival of the Saxons)
• The Two Rivers (arrival of the Vikings/uniting of England)
• The Castle (Norman England)

New Sarum

• The Founding (the founding of New Sarum/building of Salisbury Cathedral)
• The Death (the Black Death)
• The Rose (the Rule of Lancaster)
• Journey From Sarum