Considering myself something of a history buff, I was intrigued to see that a fellow-member of the IAWE (Israel Association of Writers in English) has written a historical novel about a period of English history of which I am relatively ignorant. I did A-level History at school, but our syllabus focused mainly on the Tudors and very little attention was paid to any other period. In addition, I felt that as well as absorbing interesting information, I would also be supporting a colleague in the ranks of writers who, like myself, falls into the neglected category of writers in a language that is not that of the society they live in, constituting a unique cadre of  what could be termed ‘fish out of water.’ So I bought the ebook version of the book and embarked on reading it on my iphone.

D.Lawrence-Young starts the book by introducing us to the first-person narrator, a young man who is affiliated with the Royalist cause at a time in the seventeenth century when England is in the throes of civil war between the........

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