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    612-822-4611

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The Last Broomsquire

The Last Broomsquire

Hesp, Martin

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ISBN13: 9798647631763
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2020
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Last Broomsquire takes real events surrounding an 18th century story about the hanging of a West Country peasant and weaves them into a multidimensional novel - a tale of passion, brutality, adventure and romance.We meet not only the central character - an itinerant 'broomsquire' who works deep in the hills making brushes to sell in the surrounding villages - but also the Romantic Poets Coleridge and Wordsworth, the enlightened tanner, Tom Poole, and the eccentric landowner Andrew Crosse, whose electrical experiments may have helped inspire Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein.The author landscape of the Quantock Hills alive in a rich historic tapestry embellished with beautiful women, family feuds and sudden death, as well as mud-horse fishermen, shady smugglers, laudanum-takers, cider-drinkers and excise-men. Rarely has a single location played host to such a string of remarkable events.

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