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The Apprentice Highwayman
"Could you look into the eyes of a man and pull your trigger and kill him stone dead?”
Will hates his job as a blacksmith's apprentice. But as an orphan in eighteenth-century York, he doesn't have much choice - until he find out that one of his customers is a highwayman.
Joining the robber gang brings wealth, new friends and adventure - everything a boy could dream of. But when people he cares about start getting hurt, Will discovers that it is easier to enter a life of crime than to leave it.
He got into it for the money. Can he get out with his life?
Will hates his job as a blacksmith's apprentice. But as an orphan in eighteenth-century York, he doesn't have much choice - until he find out that one of his customers is a highwayman.
Joining the robber gang brings wealth, new friends and adventure - everything a boy could dream of. But when people he cares about start getting hurt, Will discovers that it is easier to enter a life of crime than to leave it.
He got into it for the money. Can he get out with his life?
117 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2024
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December 2, 2024
I really enjoyed this book! It is a really gripping and exciting story about a boy who takes up an apprenticeship with a highwayman, with really interesting characters and themes. I liked that there was lots of detail about the setting (York, in 1722), clearly very well researched by the author. I would highly recommend this book to adults and children alike.
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November 27, 2024A review not from me (because I wrote this) but from a reader who passed it on by email:
"Although I cannot be regarded as being an avid reader, I found The Apprentice Highwayman thoroughly enjoyable from cover to cover. It was so gripping, I read it at one sitting. Really! I could not put it down. Clearly well researched, I could easily see this as an idea that could be made into a TV series."
"Although I cannot be regarded as being an avid reader, I found The Apprentice Highwayman thoroughly enjoyable from cover to cover. It was so gripping, I read it at one sitting. Really! I could not put it down. Clearly well researched, I could easily see this as an idea that could be made into a TV series."
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