The Wounded Hawk
core novel 2001 The Crucible
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (1,188 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| Page count | 756 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780732264543 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Demon King wears the crown of England, and only someone strong enough to resist love can defeat him. As Edward III's reign ends in age and failure and the boy Richard II comes to the throne, England slides toward the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, and the struggle between the Church, the crown and the common people becomes, in the trilogy's alternate history, a front in the war between heaven and hell. Thomas Neville, now the archangel Michael's weapon, is caught between the ruthless purity the angels demand of him and the love he cannot stop feeling for Margaret, while the demons, whom he has been taught to hate as the source of every evil, show him a side of the war he was never told about. A second volume that reviewers praised for fusing the period's class struggle with a disturbingly ambiguous battle between good and evil.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Crucible
- Series: The Crucible core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sara Douglass
Awards (verified)
- Aurealis Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2001: won; Award year as listed by the award; presented in 2002.
Notes
- From the series record (The Crucible): Sara Douglass's historical fantasy of fourteenth-century England and France, an alternate history in which the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death and the Peasants' Revolt are moves in the war between the angels of Heaven and the demons who walk among men, seen through Thomas Neville, a Dominican friar and nobleman chosen by the archangel Michael.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Crucible: position 2 of 3: previous The Nameless Day (2000) · next The Crippled Angel (2002)
Sources
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