This book and the Kingsbridge series is what I expect most people know him for. A popular author, he wrote thriller fiction before writing this epic (and I mean epic in every sense, it's over a thousand pages long) and turning his attention to historical fiction. I'd heard of Ken Follett long before my father read his work. I've never approached anything by Ken Follett but I thought it should read at least one of my father's favourite books. We have been lucky in some ways, the funeral was one of the last in the area before such groups were restricted, although turnout was around half of what we expected.
He had some palliative care, and the health service were amazing, but it was only a matter of time. He was told it was stage 4, had spread pretty much everywhere and was inoperable. We'd known about the illness for a year or so, after he went to the Dr's complaining of a pain in his chest. Ken Follett was his favourite though, and The Pillars of the Earth his favourite Ken Follett novel.Įarlier this year, just days before Covid 19 set in and changed everything, my father lost his fight with Cancer. He didn't much care for genre, but this series really caught his attention, in part I think due to the historical aspect of the books - but also because they are just damned fine novels. Historical fiction became his real love and he began devouring books from authors such as Paul Doherty, Rory Clements, Peter Tremane, Ariana Franklin and others.
I like to think I played some part in his re-awakened literary thirst, some of the first books he read were Mike Shevdon's Courts of the Feyre series that I lent him. Though my Mother and I have always been voracious readers. Previous to that he hadn't read much for the last few decades outside of Haynes manuals and instruction leaflets (always as a last resort). Some years ago, my father started reading again. Fair warning, this isn't going to be a normal review, it's the first one I've written post-covid and is much more personal than usual.
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