In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer&#8217;s Canterbury Tales&#8212;an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. <br><br>The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.<br><br>Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group&#8217;s leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all&#8212;propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.<br><br>Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, <b>Company of Liars</b> is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>