| #2356029 in Books | Front Street Press | 2008-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .75 x7.08 x8.28l,.72 | File type: PDF | 285 pages | ||68 of 70 people found the following review helpful.| Rare and Underrated|By Mel Saxby|Knight's Fee is one of the four or five books I've read in my life which alway make me cry. Though written for children, it's completely unpatronising, always crediting the reader with intelligence and imagination, and is beautifully written. It tells the story of Randal, a half-Saxon half-Breton lad in Norman England, an orphan left to fend|About the Author|Rosemary Sutcliff's books have been published throughout the world. She has received a Hans Christian Andersen Highly Commended Author Award for her body of work and was named a Commander of the British Empire in the year of her death.
Out of sight of the patrolling sentinels, Randal sits on the gatehouse roof. The orphan is more at home with the hounds he tends, but he yearns to see the new Lord arrive at Arundel Castle. As he leans over the battlements to watch the procession, a fig slips from Randal's hand and lands right on the nose of Hugh Goch's horse. The accident is small, but it will change Randal's entire life. A game of chess, a brave minstrel, a kind old knight, and a friend will point Rand...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Knight's Fee | Rosemary Sutcliff. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
