Seven-Year Flight

In AD 875, Lindisfarne is no longer safe.With war spreading across Northumbria and Danish raiders drawing closer, the community of Saint Cuthbert must abandon the holy island and carry their most sacred treasures into the winter wilderness: the Lindisfarne Gospels, and the body of the saint himself.Young Eadwulf is not ready for the road ahead.Neither are the monks, farmers, widows, children, guides, and strangers who find themselves drawn into the flight. Through snow, hunger, fear, pursuit, and loss, they must carry more than a coffin. They must carry memory, faith, and one another.As the road grows darker, survival will depend not on kings or warriors, but on ordinary hands: a gate opened at the right moment, a rope lent, a bowl of soup shared, a frightened person choosing to take one more step.Inspired by the historical tradition of Saint Cuthbert's seven-year wandering, The Seven-Year Flight is a grounded and powerful historical novel of endurance, sacrifice, and the forgotten people who keep history alive.