Song of Oswald - Setting, Rood of Grace

The Song of Oswald: where the novel is set

The Song of Oswald is set in the Weald (or forest land) of medieval Kent, in the south of England, and the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. Imagining the landscape of the novel was one of the more pleasurable aspects of writing this work. The novel begins at Boxley Abbey, just north of Maidstone, Kent,[…]

The Song of Oswald: what the novel is about

I am Richard and once was a monk of the Cistercian order at Boxley Abbey, north of Maidstone, Kent. It is now the Year of Our Lord 1389, and I am far from that life of poverty, contemplation and silence that I lived for most of my years. Boxley was my home from near infancy[…]