Title: The shadow flies
Description: A historical romance set in the years just before the English Civil War. While cleverly avoiding the descriptions of actual executions or bloody battle scenes, it nevertheless carries a brilliant picture of the lives, fears,  anxieties and social customs of the daily lives of ordinary people in a small village in Devonshire. In Cambridge, we get a vivid idea of the humming intellectual life and political and religious upheaval of the time.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Poets
Places: Cambridge, England
People: Robert Herrick (1591-1674), Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), John Milton (1608-1674)
Time periods: 1640-1647