![]() ![]() ![]() Boy lives on a manor in France under the tutelage of Cook, a harsh mistress who inherited the estate when the master suffered an injury to the head that left him an invalid. Though Boy is awkward, shy, self-conscious, and socially ostracized owing to his hunchback, he proves to be truly one-of-a-kind. It is against this backdrop that Boy narrates his story. This coincided with Avignon Papacy, a period of several decades in the fourteenth century when the Popes resided in Avignon owing to the hospitality French Popes encountered in Rome. The Book of Boy is set in the middle ages in the Holy Year of 1350, a year in which hundreds of pilgrims went to Rome in the wake of the bubonic plague. Murdock made a name for herself with her debut children’s novel Dairy Queen (2006). The Book of Boy (2018) is a young adult novel by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. ![]()
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