The Crowning Mercy Trilogy · Book 1
A Crowning Mercy
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 577
- ISBN-13
- 9781405611350
- Type
- novel

About this book
A Crowning Mercy opened the trilogy in 1983 at 577 pages -- its longest volume -- co-written by Bernard and Judy Cornwell under the pseudonym Susannah Kells, setting a young woman's fate against a hidden fortune during the English Civil War.
Its place in The Crowning Mercy Trilogy
A Crowning Mercy is book 1 in the The Crowning Mercy Trilogy series. It is followed by Fallen Angels. See the full The Crowning Mercy Trilogy reading order.
Long before Sharpe or the Saxon Stories, a young Bernard Cornwell co-wrote three historical novels with his wife, Judy Cornwell, publishing them under the joint pseudonym "Susannah Kells." The trilogy follows generations of an English family across the upheavals of the 17th and 18th centuries: A Crowning Mercy opens during the English Civil War, where a young woman's fate becomes entangled with a hidden fortune and Oliver Cromwell's rising Puritan cause; Fallen Angels carries the family's story into the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405611350