The Crowning Mercy Trilogy · Book 3

Coat of Arms (The Aristocrats)

by Bernard Cornwell

Published
1 January 1986
Pages
352
ISBN-13
9780261662032
Type
novel

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Cover of Coat of Arms (The Aristocrats)

About this book

Coat of Arms, also published as The Aristocrats, closed the trilogy in 1986 as its shortest entry at 352 pages, following Georgian-era descendants through questions of inheritance and legitimacy.

Its place in The Crowning Mercy Trilogy

Coat of Arms (The Aristocrats) is book 3 in the The Crowning Mercy Trilogy series. It follows 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…

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