About the Book: World Without End
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the
cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a
girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults,
their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They
will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world
but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One
girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other