NWS Presents: An Evening with Ken Follett, featuring "The Armor of Light"

Ken Follett’s new novel, “The Armor of Light”, begins in the fictional town of Kingsbridge at the end of the eighteenth century. It tells of a group of linked families whose lives are turned upside-down by the new age of machinery. Follett’s characters are involved in bread riots, strikes, and violent resistance to forced recruitment to the military. The British parliament meets protest with repressive new laws that make it a crime to criticize the government.
The strife and brutality of the Industrial Revolution is intensified by a twenty-three-year war between Britain and France-a war that reaches its climax at the battle of Waterloo. As always, Follett highlights the roles played by women in both peace and war.
Follett’s five Kingsbridge books and the Century trilogy are dramatic, page-turning bestsellers that, between them, chart the development of the West from the reign of Ethelred the Unready to the election of President Obama. The seven novels already published have so far sold a total of 76 million copies.
“I didn’t plan it this way,” said Ken Follett. “I just scoured the past for exciting stories that showed ordinary people coping with the changing tides of history. And then I began to see that the novels stand together as a body of work.
“I’m fascinated by how people have struggled for freedom-and won. Most of my stories are about just that. The issue underlying ‘The Armor of Light’ is freedom of speech.”
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Great to hear from the man himself. I love the way he writes. I finished Armour of Light just two weeks ago. Another cracking read.