STEPHEN EDDEN
Stephen Edden was born in Somerset in 1956, brought up in a council house and won a free scholarship to a public school in Taunton.
After completing his degree, he spent 30 years in business, including time as a director of a leading UK retailer, subsequently leaving to set up and then sell a successful business.
Safe at last from any threat of penury, he has now opted for a writing career and his first novel, The Wordsmith’s Tale (published by Beautiful Books), has been widely critically acclaimed, described by Kevin Crossley-Holland as “surging, powerful and highly readable…Above all, the whole book is exceptionally well-written”; by Alan Sillitoe as “unique, fascinating and compulsively readable” and by Kate Saunders of The Times as “an eccentric and highly entertaining history lesson, and also a compelling attempt to show the crucible of the British collective unconscious.”
LATEST BOOK: THE WORDSMITH'S TALE
England, 978AD-1087AD.
Life, Family, Passion, War.
It is 1087, and Thomas the Piper recounts how his family of story weavers and serfs has survived against the odds. His young scribe – lovestruck and distracted – writes it all down.
Covering some of the most tumultuous times of English history, the story of this Anglo-Saxon family – beset by trials, tribulations and bitter hardships – is at once truly evocative of an age defined by oral history and bloodshed and a personal history of a family who found love and kinship amid the battlefields and oppression of heartless masters.
“Surging, powerful, exceptionally well written” - Kevin Crossley-Holland.
