Boudica’s Rebellion Explored In New Historical Novel, Iceni: The Year Of Sacrifice By Stephen D Owen

On The Table Read Magazine, “the best entertainment eBook magazine UK“, Iceni: The Year Of Sacrifice by Stephen D Owen tells the gripping story of Queen Boudica’s rebellion against Roman rule in 60 CE, following the brutalization of her and her family by the Roman Procurator.

 

Iceni: The Year Of Sacrifice

60 CE. The death of Prasutagus, the Iceni king, leaves his kingdom divided between Rome and his daughters. The Roman Procurator, Catus Decianus, seizes the entire territory and subjects Boudica and her family to brutal acts of violence.

Fueled by a burning desire for vengeance, Boudica rallies the Iceni tribe and forges alliances with neighboring tribes, including the Trinovantes, Coritani, and Catuvellauni. While Roman forces are entangled in conflicts in the north, Boudica’s rebel army marches south, laying siege to Camulodunum, the Roman provincial capital.

Outnumbered and ill-prepared, the Roman garrison desperately fights to defend the city. With the very existence of Roman Britannia hanging in the balance, the stage is set for an epic clash of wills.

Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice is the debut novel from Stephen D Owen, a lifelong enthusiast of Roman Britain and the Iceni Revolt. This gripping historical fiction brings to life the dramatic story of Queen Boudica, a druid priestess, and the Iceni people as they rise up against the Roman oppressors.

Stephen D Owen

The revolt of Queen Boudica and the Iceni against the might of Rome has echoed down the centuries. Nearly 2000 years ago, during the early years of Roman Britain, Boudica, victim of Roman injustice, raised the Iceni in rebellion against Rome. 

On 1st of August 1984, millennia later, a mysterious link with the drama of the Iceni Revolt may have been uncovered. The remnants of a male peat body were found at Lindow Moss Wilmslow Cheshire, England. 

At first the peat body was thought to be a murder victim, yet in time the body was proven to be far older. As old as the Iron Age in Britain at the time of the Roman Conquest. 

Known as Lindow Man, or Pete Marsh, archaeologists and experts were called in. A theory was put forward, Lindow Man was in fact a high-born sacrificial victim. A druid priest, perhaps close to Boudica herself, who was a witness and key to the Iceni revolt. 

Dr Anne Ross, a leading archaeologist, and scientist Dr Don Robins, wrote a book revealing these sensational findings of Lindow Man. The Life and Death of a Druid Prince. 

The discovery of Lindow Man inspired me to write Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice. Was this man a priest. Fundamental to the fate of Boudica and the Iceni? 

We may never know the truth. Yet Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice, is my story of what may have happened. I would encourage readers to explore the dramatic story of Boudica, the Iceni Revolt and Lindow Man through the pages of my novel and the history of the times.

–Stephen D Owen

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