You have never seen The Pillars of the Earth like this! Ken Follett's worldwide bestseller is now presented as an elaborately designed graphic novel series. England, 1123. It is a time of bloody conflicts between the nobility, the clergy, and the common people, who suffer under exploitation and hardship. Master builder Tom Builder and his family are also fighting for their very survival. Tom's dream of one day building a significant church seems distant, little more than a figment of his imagination. But on a particularly cold night, his wife dies and, in her final moments, makes him promise to realize his dream and build a cathedral in her memory. For decades, Ken Follett's first Kingsbridge novel, The Pillars of the Earth, has been on everyone's lips. Read, loved, and adapted into a film. Together with Belgian artists Didier Alcante and Steven Dupré, Follett now presents his bestseller once again in a completely different form: as a beautifully staged graphic novel. See and read how it all began. Follow Tom Builder, his wife, and his sons into the winter forest and discover with them the dream of a cathedral like the world has never seen before. Volume 1 features the first part of the epic, lavishly designed and printed in full color throughout.