Stratton Hill: a Tale of the Civil Wars

Stratton Hill: A Tale Of The Civil Wars. Stratton Hill is a historical novel set during the English Civil War in the West, weaving battlefield action with intimate tales of love, loyalty, and social conflict. The Dawnay sisters, Eleanor and Catherine, inhabit a crumbling aristocratic estate as Royalist and Parliamentarian forces surge through Cornwall, Somerset, and beyond. A cast of lovers and soldiers moves between sieges, ambushes, and court intrigues: Carries, a devoted wanderer from the Levant, shelters Royalists and grows close to Eleanor; Trevanion, a brilliant but ambitious Cornish officer, commands both respect and suspicion while contending with rival loyalties and passion. Eleanor’s devotion to Trevanion and Catherine’s passion for another suitor drive personal tensions that mirror the larger political struggle, with battles at Stratton, Edgehill, Lansdowne, Roundway, and Gloucester shaping destinies. The tale follows love, sacrifice, and fate as war consumes homes, tests loyalties, and yields both tragedy and endurance. In a finale of marriage, exile, and memory, the narrative reflects the enduring costs of civil strife.