"Conscience of the King" is a story told by one Coroticus who is an old man and , as is the habit of an old man, decides to narrate the story of his life. The scene is laid in England of the 5th and 6th centuries, which, since the evacuation of the Romans, is a hopeless melange of small kingdoms, feudal principalities and wastelands. Coroticus is of the nobility, Roman and Christian, by inheritance, as opposed to the fierce Saxons. The book is an account of the struggle for power between the warring factions; a study of the civilization, the social customs, and the religious and political outlook of the time. The author, thoroughly steeped in the legends and bits of history of the era, paints a wonderfully vivid picture of a time that is almost unknown to us. This is a real historical novel where history is an integral part of the Characters and the action and not a mere backdrop. It is written in a delightful tongu-in-the-cheek manner, slightly resembling Ershine's Helen of Troy and some of TH White's books. Coroticus reveals himself, naively and innocently, as a rogue of the first water, quite capable of patricide, fratricide and treachery and cowardice. At the same time, he is an able and intelligent man and his comments on the life of the times are pungent and often amusing and revealing.
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