Once healed he plans to set off to the North to find out what happened to the lost legion and its eagle, and to save his father’s name if possible. He also meets a feisty young British girl. While convalescing with his uncle in Silchester he buys a slave, Esca, with whom he develops a friendship. Severely wounded in battle, he is discharged from the army. Now 19, Marcus is sent to the province of Britain, to begin his military career as a centurion. He was the commanding officer of the Roman Ninth Legion which disappeared in action in Northern England and Scotland. Marcus Flavius Aquilla’s father disappeared 12 years before the book’s beginning.
The Eagle of the Ninth is the first in a loose series exploring a single family at key points. Sutcliff is most famous for her historical novels set in Roman Britain. She carried on writing throughout her life, even on the morning of her death in 1992. Although she went on to become a prize winning author, she didn’t learn to read until nine. Sutcliff had a profound imagination perhaps from her childhood experience of interrupted schooling and being read stories by her mother. At a young age she was affected by Still’s disease and spent much of her life in a wheelchair. Rosemary Sutcliffīorn on 14 December 1920 in Surrey, Rosemary Sutcliff spent much of her youth in Malta. This week marks the 100th anniversary of Rosemary Sutcliff’s birth.
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