Paul Rushworth-Brown

Goodreads Review: Susan Hancock rated it Paul Rushworth-Brown’s book, set in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Yorkshire, is a convincingly raw and unvarnished account of life in those times. Because of the naming repetition, I wasn't sure which generation I was reading about at first, but once the story settled it was possible to warm to the characters, in particular Thomas and Agnes, as an arranged marriage leads to a touching love story. The dialect is not too off-putting and helps with the realistic feel to the author’s recreation of the times. Without mention of specific research sources in the book, it isn’t possible to check on the historical accuracy (and this is fiction in any event.) However the account does have a very authentic ‘feel’ to it.