About This Book
The Scribe's Family is an historical novel of unprecedented scope, a family saga enacted on an evolving stage of ten settings, ten eras, ten Golden Ages, spanning five millennia. The saga begins in ancient Mesopotamia shortly after the invention of writing. It concludes in Elizabethan England as both Shakespeare and the emerging British Empire take center stage.
During the intervening centuries, the Scribe's charming, lovable and often troublesome family struggles with life's often quirky challenges in Egypt, Crete, Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Paris and Florence. Ten diverse Golden Ages, guilded by a fascinating variety of customs, mores and taboos, trades and religions, traditions and temptations to cunningly beguile the scribe's lively, growing family.
The Scribe's Family dramatizes the unchanging character of human nature--that the passions which engulfed ordinary people five-thousand years ago still do.
