CLOVEN HOOVES
Megan Lindholm
Who also writes as
Robin Hobb
Harper
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins
Copyright © Megan Lindholm Ogden 1991
Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollins
Cover illustration © Jackie Morris
Robin Hobb writing as Megan Lindholm asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008287399
Ebook Edition © August 2019 ISBN: 9780008363956
Version: 2019-06-07
‘Hobb is one of the great modern fantasy writers … As addictive as morphine’
‘A little slice of heaven’
‘The feelings of anguish, ambiguity, fear and failure [in her novels] are as familiar as those in a novel by Jonathan Franzen’
‘Hobb is always readable. But the elegant translucence of her prose is deceptive … That is the ambition of high art. The novelists in any genre are rare who achieve it with Hobb’s combination of accessibility and moral authority’
‘A series that recalls HBO’s
‘In today’s crowded fantasy market Robin Hobb’s books are like diamonds in a sea of zircons’
George R. R. Martin
‘Hobb is superb, spinning wonderful characters and plots from pure imagination’
Conn Iggulden
‘Magic is the word. Absolutely riveting’
Barbara Erskine
‘Hobb seamlessly blends intrigue, action and characters who feel so real that they become more than words on a page’
‘Glorious and beautiful storytelling from Robin Hobb’
Contents
Copyright
Praise
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen