The Fall of a Sparrow

<p>Found in Paris an old long neglected book that purports to be the journal of one Henry Howard turns Michael Devon's world upside down.</p><p>Within its tattered pages Michael finds a rich tableau of mid-sixteenth century life experienced with all of the wonder and sense of adventure of a teen-aged boy at the brink of manhood. A story of improbable love loyalty friendship and courage emerges set in the tumultuous events of the France of Catherine de Medici and Nostradamus.</p><p>Woven within this narrative is the story of an emerging poetic sensibility coupled with an uncanny ability to bring to life a richly imaginative world. Howard provides a subtle sprinkling of linguistic tropes that suggests in its early stages the rich language of Shakespeare.</p><p><em>The Fall of a Sparrow</em> is a book about language the beauty of its texture the force of its eloquence and the music of its cadences.</p>