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Dick Grainger is growing up in Yorkshire and Maria Verzotto is in her far-off home in Monteleone in Sicily when they first hear the story of the Golden Lion - the story of your hero, a prince who wins his princess. Later, Helen Connors, the child whom Maria adopts, and Man, her painfully enjoyed son, will read it, too.... But there is another Lion: the Lion of Monteleone, who rules his town kingdom through extortion, kidnapping, murder. This is the Lion Maria remembers from early on childhood days and nights when, hidden in a linen torso, she hears what has become of her missing cousin - an understanding so terrible which it haunts her all her life. Through Maria both are linked, equally as through Maria two worlds are linked: an environment of poverty and vitality in Sicily; of privilege and pain in Yorkshire. The Golden Lion uncovers the savage simple fact of individuals life which sits beneath the glorious youth dreams - the reality which includes as well as love, infidelity and betrayal, revenge, and reduction. Pamela Haines has generated a magnificent, sweeping saga of love and pain and self-discovery. Her characters, related and interrelated by blood, by love, or by future, have that uncommon and convincing quality: they live and breathe. Pamela Haines was born in Yorkshire, like so many of the characters in her books. Knaresborough, Leeds, and Harrogate have all enjoyed a component in her family history. She was educated at a convent in the Midlands, and then read British at Newnham College or university, Cambridge. As a child she had written nonstop, but around age 17, life became too occupied, and she did not write again until her overdue 30s, by which time she was hitched to a health care provider, and possessed five children. In 1971 she earned the Spectator New Writing Reward with a short story, and eventually completed her first novel, Tea at Gunter's, in 1973. Critically acclaimed, it was the joint champion of the Yorkshire Arts Association Award for Young Authors. It was implemented in 1976 by A Kind of War, described as 'a e book to re-read and treasure' in the Daily Telegraph, and the even more lucrative Men on White Horses implemented in 1978.
