For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
A son’s post on LiveJournal, sent to me by a stranger (to me): “Oh my God Daddy this is so BRILLIANT I want you to keep reading until the end or until we both fall asleep.” He likes it then …
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
This puts the book in the same company as Conan and The Hobbit. :)
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