Sarah Woodbury
Author of Daughter of Time
About the Author
Sarah Woodbury is the author of approximately 19 novels and 13 novellas, all set in medieval Wales. With two historian parents, Sarah couldn't help but develop an interest in the past. She went on to acquire her degree in anthropology and began writing fiction. While her ancestry is Welsh, she only show more visited Wales for the first time while in college. She has been in love with the country, language, and people ever since. Her title's include: Daughter of Time. Children of Time, Masters of Time, The Unlikely Spy, and Outpost in Time. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Sarah Woodbury
The Welsh Guard Mysteries: Books 1-3 5 copies
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Medieval Romantic Redemptions (Box Set 4-in-1) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- With two historian parents, Sarah couldn't help but develop an interest in the past. She went on to get more than enough education herself (in anthropology) and began writing fiction when the stories in her head overflowed and demanded she let them out. While her ancestry is Welsh, she only visited Wales for the first time while in college. She has been in love with the country, language, and people ever since. She even convinced her husband to give all four of their children Welsh names.
She makes her home in Oregon. [from Amazon.com, retrieved 7/31/2013] - Nationality
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As I understand things, this was the original first book written in this series. About a brother and sister who end up travelling in time between 21st century Pennsylvania to 13th century Wales. When they arrive, they end up accidently killing the English soldiers who were trying to kill the Welsh ruler. His name was Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, In our history books, he was killed by the English at a plave called Cilmeri (kill-mary) and because he had no son to succeed him, Wales as a country show more disappeared as it was ruled over and abused by the English overlords.
This author, Sarah Woodbury asked the question - What if Llewelyn was not killed in 1282. What if he survived. How could history have changed? This is the story of what how British History was changed.
In this world, since Llewelyn did survive, he was able to get an army together and slowly he and his son, David (Prince Daffydd) began to rule Wales with benevolence and to remove all English, and Norman influence from their lands.
Most of Book 1 was about David and Anna learning how to survive in medieval Wales and for the David to learn that he was in fact Llewelyn's son. We will learn the how of this in another review.
I loved the World Building, despite the fact that Women were not permitted to be equal with their spouses or brothers, and that they must be protected at all times.
I have no right to complain about this attitude, as this is a well known fact of life back in that era. The 2 siblings, Anna and Davis both knew this so they had no choice but to accept it.
Anna is able to choose her her husband. She was married at 17 and a mother by age 19. Her husband was a knight in the employ of Prince Llewelyn. He may even have been related to the Prince as well, but I cannot remember the details.
I love history and this was a well written and well researched story with plenty of action. I did not feel that that the exposition (historical details) were written as "info dumps." The world building was well done and mostly added as parts of conversations. Both sides (the Prince and his children) were having to learn new things, hence the conversations.
I loved this book and I gave it 4 stars, mostly because it is mostly world buildings. There are around 15 more books after this one and I cannot wait to read them all. show less
This author, Sarah Woodbury asked the question - What if Llewelyn was not killed in 1282. What if he survived. How could history have changed? This is the story of what how British History was changed.
In this world, since Llewelyn did survive, he was able to get an army together and slowly he and his son, David (Prince Daffydd) began to rule Wales with benevolence and to remove all English, and Norman influence from their lands.
Most of Book 1 was about David and Anna learning how to survive in medieval Wales and for the David to learn that he was in fact Llewelyn's son. We will learn the how of this in another review.
I loved the World Building, despite the fact that Women were not permitted to be equal with their spouses or brothers, and that they must be protected at all times.
I have no right to complain about this attitude, as this is a well known fact of life back in that era. The 2 siblings, Anna and Davis both knew this so they had no choice but to accept it.
Anna is able to choose her her husband. She was married at 17 and a mother by age 19. Her husband was a knight in the employ of Prince Llewelyn. He may even have been related to the Prince as well, but I cannot remember the details.
I love history and this was a well written and well researched story with plenty of action. I did not feel that that the exposition (historical details) were written as "info dumps." The world building was well done and mostly added as parts of conversations. Both sides (the Prince and his children) were having to learn new things, hence the conversations.
I loved this book and I gave it 4 stars, mostly because it is mostly world buildings. There are around 15 more books after this one and I cannot wait to read them all. show less
Teenage siblings David (14) and Anna (17) crash their car and appear someplace unexpected. They are in a field of bodies and horses. It’s not long before they figure out they seem to have travelled back in time. Not only that, they ended up on a battlefield where they saved the life of Prince Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, who should have died in this fight with England. Lucky for David and Anna, their mother is a historian with a particular interest in 13th century Wales, so they know quite show more a bit about the time period. Due to their saving Llewellyn’s life, they are taken in and taken care of. Not only that, David is being trained to help out in this Welsh war. And Anna is a bit bored, since women aren’t really allowed to do much. But they make the most of it, though with David rightfully scared with a real war happening that it appears they are training him to help in!
I really liked this. I was thinking this was 2nd in a series, but it’s technically the first; I’ve just read the prequel already (I would actually recommend reading the prequel first). The time travel is really just the first part of the book, and after that, it’s primarily historical fiction (one of my favourite genres); ah, I guess the time travel does come up again a couple of times. 13th century Wales is definitely not a place nor time period I know much about, so that was definitely interesting. I also loved the pronunciation guide at the beginning of the book – I did refer back to that a few times! show less
I really liked this. I was thinking this was 2nd in a series, but it’s technically the first; I’ve just read the prequel already (I would actually recommend reading the prequel first). The time travel is really just the first part of the book, and after that, it’s primarily historical fiction (one of my favourite genres); ah, I guess the time travel does come up again a couple of times. 13th century Wales is definitely not a place nor time period I know much about, so that was definitely interesting. I also loved the pronunciation guide at the beginning of the book – I did refer back to that a few times! show less
Kudos to Ms Woodbury for tackling the social ills of medieval Wales and its neighbors in another complex story. The main characters are so well written that I’ve become quite attached to them (or hate them when necessary), but even new characters are richly detailed, like the Shrewsbury deputy sheriff in this one and even a very minor Irish character and King Madog and his wife.
3.75 stars
Meg has a toddler daughter, Anna, and just recently buried her abusive husband, who she’d been trying to leave. When Meg and Anna are driving one night, an accident spins their vehicle, but when they wake up, Meg thinks someone is playing a prank. They have woken up in the 13th century, and the man taking care of her is the Prince of Wales (when Wales was still its own country). At this time, the Prince, Llywelyn, has made a tentative peace with the Prince (King?) of England, but show more still has people coming after him, including his own traitorous brother, Dafydd.
I quite enjoyed this time travel/historical fiction/romance. The chapters alternated points of view between Meg and Llywelyn. I did prefer the chapters from Meg’s POV, likely due to a. being a woman, and b. being able to “picture” how one might react shifting in time from present day to the 13th century! I liked the pronunciation guide (for Welsh) at the start of the book. Apparently this is a prequel to a series, but I haven’t (yet) read any of the rest of the series (though I plan to continue now!) show less
Meg has a toddler daughter, Anna, and just recently buried her abusive husband, who she’d been trying to leave. When Meg and Anna are driving one night, an accident spins their vehicle, but when they wake up, Meg thinks someone is playing a prank. They have woken up in the 13th century, and the man taking care of her is the Prince of Wales (when Wales was still its own country). At this time, the Prince, Llywelyn, has made a tentative peace with the Prince (King?) of England, but show more still has people coming after him, including his own traitorous brother, Dafydd.
I quite enjoyed this time travel/historical fiction/romance. The chapters alternated points of view between Meg and Llywelyn. I did prefer the chapters from Meg’s POV, likely due to a. being a woman, and b. being able to “picture” how one might react shifting in time from present day to the 13th century! I liked the pronunciation guide (for Welsh) at the start of the book. Apparently this is a prequel to a series, but I haven’t (yet) read any of the rest of the series (though I plan to continue now!) show less
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