January 1067. Charismatic bishop Odo of Bayeux commissions a wall hanging on ascale never seen before to celebrate the conquest of Britain by his brotherWilliam... » 

January 1067. Charismatic bishop Odo of Bayeux commissions a wall hanging on ascale never seen before to celebrate the conquest of Britain by his brotherWilliam Duke of Normandy. What he cannot anticipate is how utterly this willchange his lifeeven more than the invasion itself. His life becomes entangledwith the women who embroider his hanging especially Gythahandmaiden to thefallen Saxon queen and his sworn enemy. But against their intentions they fallhelplessly in love. Friends become enemies enemies become lovers nothing inlife or in the hanging is what it seems. «