[quote=""Vanessa""]It's 1189 and I, Lady Alix of Wanthwaite, am on my way to London disguised as a boy. Soothly, I am accompanied by a cunning Scot, none other than Lord Enoch Angus Boggs of Dingle-Boggs, and being chased by a knight by the name of Magnus Barefoot who wants my head on a spike! Oh woe is me!![/quote]
Really? Lord Boggs of Dingle-Boggs?? And Magnus Barefoot??
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Yep! I did snigger.
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[quote=""Vanessa""]Yep! I did snigger. [/quote]
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It must be the author's imagination which leads to wonder what's going in there!! LOL.
It must be the author's imagination which leads to wonder what's going in there!! LOL.
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I don't think the book is a particularly serious one, it's more of a romp, although it does start off so with rape and pillage! Richard the Lionheart is portrayed as a paedophile as well as gay (the rumours were that he was bi-sexual, I think). The boy is actually a girl dressed up as a boy (Richard has more than his eye on her) so they haven't got down to the nitty gritty yet and she's getting a bit worried! I'm sure Enoch Boggs will turn out to be her knight in shining armour! I'm not sure I'd want to marry him, though, with a surname like that - Lady Alix Boggs!!! LOL. She'll be keeping her own, I'm guessing.
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