Catswatch

This history is set in medieval epoch and is articulated through personages and independent narrative line that subsequently they are intertwined. The argument tour around the construction of a Romanesque cathedral in Kingsbridge (although exists a real locality with that name, situated in the southwest of England, near Plymouth and Torbay, in the region of Devon, nothing has to do with that of the novel, that is fictitious), that subsequently introduces the new Gothic style assimilating the finds of the Church of Saint-Denis (next to Paris), and to its Around it amuses several histories and personages that go grasping the focus of the attention. It begins with an ahorcamiento and a curse, and jumps some years to count the vicissitude of the family of Tom, construction whose dream is to create a cathedral, but that should fight against the poverty, the lack of work and money, and the political problems that burst in its existence. On the other hand, the monk Philip, that achieves the charge of Prior of Kingsbridge, revolutionizing the priory and the population that of him depends with its improvements and its extreme kindness and faith in God. In spite of being a dark epoch for the female sex, Ken Follett introduces its look of the 20th century, with portraits of audacious, enterprising, independent women and cultivated, with social importance and respected by the men, characteristics that would be able to be considered anachronisms or at least improbable. Thus, it Alienates, the daughter of a count, falls in misfortune when its father is captured after a robbery to its castle, but he imposes on itself the men that are interposed in its road, in the same way that Ellen fight by the justice and defends its criterion before the catholic church or its own husband. Their lives and those of their children, castles and princesses, loves, revenges, injustices, and roundtrip passions have entertained and captivated to thousands of readers bewitched by a romantic and epic story.
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