Joris of the Rock

Joris of the Rock is a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer, the second book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle.

The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Heinemann in 1928; an American edition followed from Doubleday in 1929.

[1] The novel is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom).

Overlapping the events of the previous novel, Gerfalcon, it follows the fortunes of roguish protagonist Joris, his paramour, Red Anne, and Joris's illegitimate son Juhel.

A review in the Manchester Guardian characterized Joris of the Rock as a "period novel" in contrast to a historical one, and called it "a robust, a teaming book," "a tensely plotted tale which marches at swinging pace to bear witness to its author's rich inventiveness.