Writing fiction after years of diligent and conscientious attention to detail, was a revelation.The story simply flowed chapter by chapter the development of characters who in turn dictate the course of the story was a special delight. Then I learned that quite often one paragraph dictates the flow and rhythm of the next, as much as the characters dictate their own behaviour.John a skinny boy we first met in an English churchyard planting primroses on his brothers grave, becomes a central figure to this story.He survived against odds to raise a large family yet emerges as a complex character. The birth of a calf is a thrill for the whole family that owes nothing to financial security or base ambition or fear of starvation it is a new life, an elementary joy.Even the most ancient, gnarled, grizzled farmer will stroke the calf as tenderly as a new mother, and John was no exception.He returned to check the cow four or five times in a few hours. Later in the evening he came out of the house saying he would "Just have a last look before bed."Outwardly, an apparently simple villager, yet also capable of filling the place of the late priest, his mentor, during the terrifying downward spiral of the Black Death.A time when the death toll was so heavy that all must have feared for their own survival. Johns eldest child Edith, inherits his strength and holds the family together through turbulent times, culminating in the Peasants Revolt. The young kings fear and revenge threatened...

Binding: Paperback;144 pages; Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited; Classification: N/A; Weight: 284.65 g; Dimensions: N/A

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