In 1171 twelve-year-old Hugh, burdened with a crippled leg since birth, is unhappy when his nobleman father, forced into exile in the bloody aftermath of King Henry's confrontation with Archbishop Thomas Becket, leaves him in the care of the monks of Glastonbury Abbey.
year: 2000
call number/section: 1000
subjects: friendship, fiction, adventure and adventurers, people with disabilities, monasteries, middle ages, great britain, history, henry ii, 1154-1189, fiction