Signet, Scarborough, ON, 1979, 3rd pr.  ISBN 0-7723-0058-5.  MMPB, 744 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, creases, some colour chipping; binding tight.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages, short tear at upper margin of blurb page.  ‘She defied the brutal might and seductive corruption of an Imperial Rome invading her land and enslaving her people.  She defied the command of the King, her husband, not to resist the ravishment of her realm.  She defied all the odds and every taboo against a woman when she exchanged her royal robes for armour and her sceptre for a sword.  She was the flame-haired Boudicca, Queen of the Britons, whose passion and pride lit up the mysterious world of the ancient Celts – in a magnificent saga pulsing with love and jealousy, conflict and intrigue, loyalty and betrayal, and fiery, daring rebellion….’ (from rear wrap)