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Created: 28th August, 2015

Fire, Bed and Bone

Author: Henrietta Branford
Illustrator: Mick Wiggins
Publisher: Walker

Life at the time of the Peasants’ Revolt is chronicled from the viewpoint of a dog. This device is amazingly powerful and the dog is able to make pertinent comments revealing much about the society of the time in language that conveys the atmosphere of the period. An outstanding and unusual historical novel.

 

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