A Dinner of Herbs - Large Print Author:Catherine Cookson Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the autumn of 1807. Within hours of their arrival, however, the father had met a violent death, and the boy was left with all memory gone of his past life. — Adopted and raised by old Kate Makepeace, Roddy found his closest companions in Hal Roystan an... more »d Mary Ellen Lee. These three stand at the heart of a richly eventful narrative that spans the first half of the nineteenth century, their lives lastingly intertwined by the inexorable demands of a strange and somewhat cruel destiny.