Leonard R. N. Ashley delights readers with a collection of facts and folklore of the people of Queen Elizabeth I’s era. He describes sports and pastimes, religion and superstition, cooking, life in town and country, and the rising bourgeois class. In chapters titled as ‘Cakes and Ale,’ ‘The Playhouse and the Bearbaiting Pit,’ and ‘Hey nonny nonny,’ Ashley paints an enlightening portrait of a time made memorable by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
When you play with fire, everyone gets burned . . . Joe Weeks is new to the Grange Estate. Tolerant, doesnt mind a bit of weed, doesnt try to pull other mens women. Live and let live is his motto . . . Eddie Quinn is the hardest man on the estate. Everyone knows that its a bad idea to cross him, or his pit bull. But everyone also knows he’s honest, as drug dealers go. Joes pleased when Eddie offers him a job. But then he meets Katya. A prostitute. A slave. And desperate to escape from Eddie.
