The Witch's Brat

"The knowledge of herbs and healing that once prompted the villagers to stone him out of town eventually becomes the salvation for a crippled boy in twelfth-century England." --summary from library records (publisher description?) Reviewed with other books, apparently as straight historical fiction: --Leon Garfield "History, Heavy and Light" The Guardian 1970-10-01 p12 --Edward Parsons "The Magic Past from Many Countries" The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 1970-11-21 pA28 Set in 12th-century England. "Though the hero--a crippled boy--is ultimately involved in the building of St. Bartholomew's hospital and priory, it is his own inner story that grips and often moves the reader." --Garfield