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Phillipe the Mouse escapes from
the Aquila Castle dungeon and is confronted by a dark stranger
on a war-horse with a hawk on his arm. The stranger, the ex-Captain
of the Guard, Etienne Navarre, saves Phillipe and somewhat befriends
him. As night approaches, Navarre disappears and a beautiful
woman appears out of nowhere. Phillipe instantly falls for the
Lady Isabeau, but she is gone in the morning while Navarre has
returned.
As the days and nights pass, Phillipe befriends Isabeau
and also learned that Navarre requires Phillipe’s knowledge
on how to get into Aquila Castle, since he intends to kill the
evil Bishop of Aquila. After the hawk is shot, and Phillipe takes
the hawk to a ruined abbey in which Father Imperius lives, he
learns that the Bishop of Aquila, who was in love with Isabeau,
placed a spell on both Navarre and Isabeau when he found out
that they were in love.
By day, Navarre is human, but by night
he is a large, black wolf. By night, Isabeau is human, but by
day she is a hawk. Two years have passed since the spell was
thrown, and Navarre is determined to kill the Bishop and exact
his revenge. Father Imperius has a plan, knowing that a time
is fast approaching when it will be neither day nor night, and
that is when Navarre can strike. But Navarre won’t listen.
He insists on acting now.
LadyHawke is a fantasy tale set in
France maybe a thousand years ago. This book is a Movie Tie-In.
The movie came out in 1985 and starred Matthew Broderick as Phillipe,
Rutger Hauer as Navarre, and Michelle Pfeiffer as Lady Isabeau.
There are eight pages of movie photos in black and white in the
center of the book. The book doesn’t seem to deviate from
the movie and is a good tale.
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