The Miller's Boy

Belinda Copson, a Willard expert, believes this novel, set in 1479, about the friendship between Thomas Welfare, the miller's boy, and Lewis Mallory, recently come to live at Ghylls Hatch, a horsebreeding farm in the vicinity of Mantlemass, begins the Mantlemass novels. In fifteenth-century Sussex a young boy living with his grandfather, a harsh miller, dreams of having a friend his age and a horse to take him to his married sister.