The Capricorn Bracelet is a collection of six stories told by various members of a family in Britain over a period of three hundred years. The common link among these six stories is the Capricorn bracelet, a family heirloom earned for distinguished conduct by the centurion Lucius who was a boy when Londinium fell. The last story is told by Lucian, whose father is executed with Maximus during Maximus' failed bid to be emperor of Britain.

The stories are told in the first person, which is a different device for Sutcliff but one that works quite well for her in this collection. This collection grew out of Sutcliff's work about Roman Scotland for a BBC radio program called "Stories From Scottish History." I enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone looking for a short piece of historical fiction about Roman Britain. ( )