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EMBARK ON A TURBULENT JOURNEY THROUGH A RAVAGED COUNTRYSIDE . . . WITH ONLY LIARS FOR COMPANY.
The year is 1348. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to flee the certain death that is rolling inexorably toward them. Each traveler has a hidden gift, a dark secret, and a story to tell….
From Camelot, the relic-seller, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller—from the strange, silent child Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each guards secrets closely. None are as they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all—propelling these liars to a destiny more perilous than any of them could imagine.
- Sales Rank: #301537 in Books
- Published on: 2009-08-25
- Released on: 2009-08-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x 1.04" w x 5.21" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 480 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Desperate to outrun the Black Death ravaging England during the sodden summer of 1348, nine disparate souls band together in this harrowing historical, which infuses a Canterbury Tales scenario with the spectral chill of an M. Night Shyamalan ghost story. Maitland (The White Room) gives each of the travelers a potentially devastating secret. How did narrator Camelot, a glib-tongued peddler of false relics and hope, really come by that hideously scarred face? What is magician Zophiel hiding inside his wagon? And just who is Narigorm, the spooky albino girl whose readings of the runes are always eerily on target? As the nine strangers slog cross-country through the pestilential landscape, their number shrinking one by one, they come to realize that what they don't know about each other might just kill them. Despite Maitland's yarn-spinning prowess, her narrative occasionally stalls because of unrelenting grimness and an increasingly predictable plot—that is, until its gasp-out-loud finale. (Oct.)
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From Booklist
Imagine a sinister version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, overlaid with a touch of And Then There Were None. Far from the royal court’s pageantry, nine outcasts form an unlikely band that, beginning on Midsummer’s Day, 1348, journeys across England in an attempt to outrun the Black Plague. Camelot, a disfigured peddler of fake relics, narrates; others include an expectant young couple, an Italian minstrel and apprentice, an ill-tempered magician, an herbalist, a storyteller with a swan’s wing for an arm, and an albino child rune reader whose predictions are uncannily prescient. Each reveals his story; each hides a dark secret that proves his undoing. Maitland excels at describing the bleak, devastated landscape of a pestilence-torn country, with its rampant famine and superstitious, terrified inhabitants, although the pace approaches that of the travelers, trudging endlessly through the mud and muck. Likewise, some revelations are signposted too clearly. But interspersed in the cheerless realism, there’s much to absorb about medieval folk customs, garments, guilds, and religion. These details, plus the intriguing characters and burgeoning suspense, keep pages turning. --Sarah Johnson
Review
"[Maitland] brings to life a medieval England of muddy streets and half-naked children fighting each other for pieces of dog dung to sell to the tanners, as sheep-stealers swing purple-faced from the gallows.... She neatly catches the spirit of primitive superstition that governed every aspect of 14th century life and then rolls on with it for her own story-telling ends.... Company of Liars is a richly evocative page-turner which brings to life a lost and terrible period of British history, with a disturbing final twist worthy of a master of the spine-tingler, such as Henry James."–Daily Express, UK
“Transports readers back to the days of the Black Death . . . Paying homage to The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales, this is a gripping read. . . . As a reader you are taken as close to the plague as you would ever wish to go.” —Bookseller
"Darkly deceptive, twisting and turning and pulling you along, Company of Liars will leave you guessing until the end. Maitland creates a world that will both haunt and astonish you."—Shana Ábe
"Mysterious, sinister, and totally enthralling! It's the sort of book where you close the back cover and immediately open it again, hoping to find a few more pages."—Diana Gabaldon, #1 bestselling author of A Breath of Snow and Ashes
"Karen Maitland immerses the modern reader in the daily life of the Middle Ages. Intricately plotted, Company of Liars offers complex characters today's reader can identify with. A dark Canterbury's Tale, this long winter's night of magical storytelling expertly blends history and mystery."—Julia Spencer-Fleming, Edgar Award finalist and author of I Shall Not Want
“Karen Maitland has dug into some obscure corners of medieval history to produce an almost parallel universe: a place where myth, magic, and superstition take over as the established order breaks down, but a world that nevertheless rings true. On top of that, she has fashioned a compelling mystery story that should appeal to a much wider readership than historical fiction fans. . . . Compelling.” —Daily Mail, UK
"Maitland combines the storytelling traditions of The Canterbury Tales with the supernatural suspense of Kate Mosse's Sepulchre in this atmospheric tale of treachery and magic."—Marie Claire
“A Canterbury Tales scenario with an M. Night Shyamalan ghost story…. A harrowing historical.”—Denver Post
"A compelling and highly atmospheric twist on Dan Brown land."—The Mirror, UK
“Executed with stunning skill.”—BookPage
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
A powerful character-driven story and why you should read it
By Clan Lindsey
A lot has been made of this book being a re-telling of The Canterbury Tales. It isn't. There are some superficial similarities, but that is all. This is however a very wonderful character-driven book and I enjoyed it thoroughly, much more so than I ever did Chaucer. This book follows a group of people as they slowly accrete around the narrator, the "Camelot" who is an itinerant peddler of bogus religous artifacts. The time is 1348 and the Black Death has made its way to England's shores. The Camelot decides to make his way north and inland to try and get as far away as possible from the Southern ports where the plague first appears.
Along the way the Camelot picks up a rag-tag bunch of company; a misanthropic magician with his malformed fetus display, to a master and apprentice musician, an eerie young fortune-teller, a healer, a story-teller, and an artisan and his wife. The plague dogs their heels as the group face incessant rain, privation and starvation as they try, in wretched circumstances, to stay beyond the curtain of death sweeping England. The book powerfully conveys what England was like at this time, the prejudices, the fears, the strange beliefs, the greediness of the priests, the squalor, the filth and the terror and horror of the Black Death.
Despite this grim backdrop, the tale is powerfully compelling as the story focuses not upon these grim external conditions, but upon the goodness and hopes of the characters themselves. None of the characters are quite who they claim to be and all have secrets they desperately wish to keep. Over the months they travel together, eat and sleep together, face misfortune and disaster together they learn more about their companions until all the secrets are fully revealed in turn, often with dire consequences. What makes this book so powerful is the beautifully rendered characters. They are exquisitely drawn, full of humanity and the range of human hopes and fears, and you will feel compassion and empathy for them as the story unfolds. This book is well worth the reading and will stick with you for long after you've closed the pages.
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
better first two-thirds than final third
By B. Capossere
Company of Liars is, for most of the book's roughly 500 pages an engrossing, entertaining, and even educational read. A historical novel combining a Canterbury-Tales like structure (it's slight and shallow but there) and a medieval-mystery like plot, it entertains while the motley group of Chauceresque pilgrims gather by ones and twos into a single group (some more willingly than others), it educates while this group troops through the muck and death of 14th century plague-ridden England, and it engrosses while its members are knocked off one by one. Unfortunately, while it still garners a recommend, it doesn't sustain any of these three aspects through the whole of the book.
It's narrated by Camelot (or "a" camelot since the name is also a general descriptor of those who sell holy relics), whose voice is pleasant and endearing enough to happily carry us through the novel, though at times it felt like the voice wasn't wholly of the 14th century. Camelot introduces himself and his profession, then the arrival of the plague, which is the impetus for Camelot's decision to head north and inland in order to find a place to escape the plague until the oncoming winter kills it off (ahh, the optimism). Soon enough Camelot is successively joined by a pair of musicians--a master and apprentice--, a deformed storyteller, a traveling conjuror, a pregnant woman and her lover, a healer, and a strange 12-year-old girl who reads the runes and tells the future.
The travelers are all trying to escape the plague but they have other reasons for flight as well, reasons that will remain their own for some time. Meanwhile, not all are happy about their forced accompaniment and there is a lot of tension, strive, and even violence between the various members of the band. It doesn't help that at least one is a fugitive or that they are seemingly being stalked by a lone wolf that howls outside their camp almost nightly no matter how long or how far they travel.
The book maintains a good sense of tension as the characters come together and as they trudge through the countryside trying to outrace the certain death that follows. Time and again they seem to find a potential shelter only to be forced onward again. The tension heightens as their personal quarrels start flaring into violence, the wolf continues to stalk them, and the plague starts to hem them in at all sides and it reaches its apex with the first death among them. The historical background is well-done throughout, conveying the sense of fear and superstition. And the stories that each tells along the way (in another nod to Chaucer) are interesting enough fabulist tales, if not particularly original.
Problems start to arise about two-thirds of the way in though. One is that the constant bickering among them starts to get a bit wearing. Another is that the lies/secrets that each is carrying aren't particularly surprising by the time they're revealed. If anything, the revelations are a bit anti-climactic. The same is true about several of the killings. And the big finale has several problems of its own, which I won't go into for fear of spoiling it.
One can't help but be disappointed by the payoff, which always makes for a hard call on a recommendation. The first two-thirds I'd say are a solid if not inspiring 4, but the final third is a disappointing 2. In the end, I come down on recommending Company because I can't say I'm sorry I read it, though it disappoints in the end. Though perhaps that's appropriate that in a book that follows a group of travelers, the best part is that segment of the journey where the road is still open and mysterious. Recommended with qualifiers.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Lies, All Lies!
By The Rev. Craig
Quirky and strange. All lie, few are forgiven, no, make that none are forgiven. The ending is amazing even though some may think it obvious or tawdry. Getting there is through a spider's web with the spider roaming the web. I was impressed with Maitland's knowledge of medieval England and the plague devastations. it's not an easy read because so much happens sometimes at once. I found it creepy , but worth it.
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