Marije is fifteen when she flees Bruges to escape her despised fiancé. On her dangerous journey to the South, she meets the boy of her life, a singer, with whom she travels through noisy France. The Hundred Years War with England has been raging there for years. But times are changing: against beautiful knights who dream of tournaments, more and more farmers and townspeople are faced, well-trained foot soldiers, skilled archers. The cities are going to protect themselves, arm their citizens; a new independence is born, another time arrives. Geef me de ruimte! is the first part of a trilogy about the Hundred Years War. The other parts are Triomf van de verschroeide aarde (Part II) and Het rad van fortuin (Part III).
Thea Beckman (Author)
