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==Historical fiction==
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|author=Lawrence Norfolk
|title=John Saturnall's Feast
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=John Saturnall’s mother is a healer and herbalist. It was all too easy in the 1620’s for women with her skills to come under suspicion of witchcraft. When John and his mother are hounded from their village by religious extremists the Lessoners, they hide in Buccla’s Wood. But as winter takes a grip on the land John’s mother dies. John is taken in to work in the kitchens at Buckland Manor. His progress from scullery boy to cook is graphically recorded alongside his prickly relationship with the daughter of the house, Lucretia. The story takes the couple through the years of the civil war, when life at Buckland comes under threat from the advancing Puritan army.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408805960</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Russell James
