Paris (AFP)

The next Ken Follett novel, the best-selling British author, will appear worldwide in the fall of 2020, according to its French publisher.

"The Evening and the Morning" (original title) will be published in French by Robert Laffont editions.

The Welsh writer had himself announced Wednesday the release of his next novel at the Book Fair in Frankfurt (Germany) where he was invited.

The action of this new novel is located before that of the "Pillars of the Earth" (1990), its bestseller, sold to 27 million copies, clarified Robert Laffont.

Kent Follett has already written two sequels to his bestseller: "A World Without End" (2008) and "A Column of Fire" (2017).

The new novel "takes place at the end of the Dark Ages and at the beginning of the Middle Ages, so one evening and one morning.The sentence is Biblical, of course; + Thus, there was one evening, and there was had a morning: it was the first day + ... ", Ken Follett explained, quoted by the publisher.

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