Jerelyn H. (I-F-Letty) - reviewed on 11/11/2010 + 73 more book reviews

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I finished The Unquite Bones today, and I enjoyed it very much. It takes place in England in the 14th century. Hugh de Singleton is a student at Oxford and through some soul searching, and the death of a dear friend of the plague he goes to Paris to study to become a surgeon. On his return he hangs out his shingle so to speak in Oxford. This is where he meets his destiny and his patron. He moves to the village of Bampton and in the course of his duties a skeleton of a young woman is found in the cesspit, which is mucked out regularly, so they know the girls was recently dumped there but long enough ago to strip her identity from her. Lord Gilbert charges Hugh with finding the identity of the girl and the killer. Hugh just hopes he is up to the task. This is written about a remarkable time in feudal England when the population had been decimated by the plague, the ruling class actually valued the peasantry, after all who would they get to muck out the cesspit. Melvin Starr has a masters knowledge of the culture and customs, and history of the time period and relates it so well, that you wish he had been your history teacher.

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