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Meanwhile William Hamleigh, son of the new Earl of Shiring visits the castle and assaults Bartholomew daughter Aliena.
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Valeran is most keen for the trial to begin and it's revealed she may be privy to a deeply held secret she revealed to him during confession. With Philip away from the Priory, Tom's son accuses Ellen of witchcraft and she is arrested.
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The fates would intervene and provide Tom with an opportunity to pursue his dream. The lives of Tom and his family would intersect that of a humble and intelligent monk named Phillip who would become the prior at Kingsbridge Priory.
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His dealings with the Hamleighs also earns him the enmity of Bishop Waleran. One story is that of Tom, a master builder, whose life long dream was to build a cathedral. Philip decides to ask the King for funds and learns a hard lesson in politics after making a deal, or so he thought, with Percy Hamleigh's scheming wife. After the church burns down, Tom presents a plan for a new a new style of church with pointed arches and large windows. The church is in need of repair but Prior Philip has no money and is unable to hire them. You feel you know the place and the people as intimately as if you yourself were living there in the middle ages.Tom Builder, his children, Ellen and her son Jack arrive at Kingsbridge Priory in the hope of finding work. Emerging from the war-torn shadows of Englands Dark Ages, an idealistic mason, Tom Builder (Rufus Sewell, The Holiday) sets out on a quest of erecting a. It recreates, quite vividly, the entire life of the village and the people who live there. My publishers were a little nervous about such a very unlikely subject but paradoxically, it is my most popular book. Pillars of the Earth took me three years and three months and towards the end I was working Saturdays and Sundays because I thought I was never going to get it finished. It is much more difficult to write one book of 400,000 words than three or four shorter books because you have to keep making up more and more stuff about the same people. Writing The Pillars of the Earth was exhausting. Its UK premiere was on Channel 4 in October 2010 at 9pm.
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on Starz and in Canada on The Movie Network / Movie Central on July 23, 2010.
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He is married to Agnes, and his children are Alfred Builder. The Pillars of the Earth is an eight-part 2010 TV miniseries, adapted from Ken Follett s 1989 novel of the same name. So the story covers the entire lives of the main characters. Tom is a master mason whose one dream in life is to become the master builder of a cathedral. It took at least thirty years to build a cathedral and most took longer because they would run out of money, or be attacked or invaded. However, those of my friends who are writers saw immediately how the building of the church would be the spine of the story and the focus for the lives of all the characters. They said, “you know, you’ve had a lot of success with these thrillers, are you sure you want to write about building a church?”. When I started talking about the idea, some of my friends were quite shocked. Before too long, it occurred to me to channel this enthusiasm into a novel. I would go to a town, like Lincoln or Winchester, check into a hotel and spend a couple of days looking around the cathedral and learning about it. I became a bit of a 'train spotter' on the subject.
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I read a couple of books on architecture and developed an interest in cathedrals. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett combines actual history with the tale of Tom Builder who wishes to build a cathedral in twelfth century Kingsbridge. When I started writing, back in the early Seventies, I found I had no vocabulary for describing buildings. It’s overwhelmingly the book that readers talk to me about when I meet them in bookshops. The Pillars of the Earth follows the lives of Tom Builder & his family, Lady Aliena, Prior Philip, Jack Jackson, William Hamleigh & many others in Medeival. It still sells about 100 000 copies a year in paperback in the US, it was number one in the UK and Italy and it was on the German best seller list for six years.