The Great Dreamer - Tom Builder and Why he ranks high as one of Fiction's Greatest Leads: The Greatest History Fiction of England: Pillars of the Earth

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The Shape of the Story

“IN A BROAD VALLEY, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.
The walls were already three feet high and rising fast. The two masons Tom had engaged were working steadily in the sunshine, their trowels going scrape, slap and then tap, tap while their labourer sweated under the weigh…