GALLOWS WEDDING by Martin, Rhona - 1978

London: The Bodley Head, 1978. 304 pp. Blue boards lettered in silver on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. This won the First Historical Novel Prize in Honour of Georgette Heyer. Dj art by David Pether. Marked as an outcast from birth, she lost her mother and was driven from her home by the fear and superstition of her neighbours. Starving and desperate, fleeing on the one hand from the witch hunters and on the other from the sinister grasp of the coven... Still, she manages to rescue an aritocratic outlaw from the gallows. Together they struggle to survive a world in which brutal death awaits at every corner. A strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by David Pether;. 8vo. Book.