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By Francis Quinn (S&S £14.99, 384 pp) ‘You’re small on the outside. But, inside, you’re as big as everyone else. You show people that and you won’t go far wrong in life.’ It’s a maternal mantra which 18in high Nat Davy takes to heart as he attempts to survive in the tumultuous court of Charles I, where a dithering King and a homesick Queen (Henrietta Maria of France) are unable to prevent civil war. As religious factions plunge the country into routs and regicide, Nat’s life plots an equally turbulent course. Sold by his father to the manipulative Duke of Buckingham, baked into...
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