Red Adam's Lady (Rediscovered Classics)

By: Grace Ingram

Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter

The fair Lady Julitta has a problem. She is not wealthy. She prizes her virginity. And her liege, whom she despises, is intent on rape.

Red Adam is the lord of Brentborough castle - young, impetuous, scandalous, a 12th-century hell raiser. On one of his night of drunken revelry, he abducts Julitta. Though she fends him off, keeping her virginity, he has sullied her honor. Then to the astonishment of all, he marries her.

Red Adam's Lady is a boisterous, bawdy tale of wild adventure, set against the constant dangers of medieval England. It is a story of civil war and border raids, scheming aristocrats and brawling villagers, daring escapes across the moors, and thundering descents down steep cliffs to the ocean. Its vivid details give the listener a fascinating and realistic view of life in a medieval castle and village. And the love story is an unusual one since Julitta won't let Adam get closer than the length of her stiletto. Long out of print though highly acclaimed, Red Adam's Lady is a true classic of historical fiction along the lines of Anya Seton's Katherine and Sharon Kay Penman's Here Be Dragons.

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Glad I found this classic again

Love this book, so it makes the narrator's minimal shortcomings tolerable. I remember finding a dusty copy of this book at my school growing up, so I'm happy this is finally on audio!

wonderful story, language and history.

enjoyed the story, the language of the auther and history. Appropriate for pretty much all ages

Reader was okay.

ok yes the narrator is terrible

first, screw this foreword i wasn't warned about, ruining the friggin plot in the first 2 minutes of the audio. be warned, skip chapter one.

second, this narrator makes me crazy. all the Ds are Ts and she mispronounces REALLY easy words. ugh could barely finish it.

Engaging medieval adventure

Highly entertaining medieval adventure/romance story,
I only wish it was performed by British narrator with better understanding of regional dialects.....

one of my favorite books

As much as I love this story, the narrator did everything in her power to completely ruin it. The mispronunciation of easy names, including Red Adam and Julitta at least once each, was painful. In addition, the dialect affected was painful and in more than one case, unintelligible. She also gave some of the noble women accents of the lower class. I doubt the narrator could have done a worse job if she tried.