The Legend of Tom Hickathrift

The Legend of Tom Hickathrift Synopsis

Warning! This tale inspired by an Olde English legend contains ogres, devil dogs, bears, and wolves.

Hundreds of years ago, in the East of England there was an area called The Smeeth. Shrouded in mist, it was a landscape of farming, fens, and fear. Strange demons haunted the fields and villages of this marshy hinterland. Into this West-Norfolk wilderness strode an unlikely champion: a bluff young boy called Tom Hickathrift. As tall as a tree and as wide as a wall, young Tom sets out to prove himself a hero to his disapproving mother and his ever-so-hard-to-please girlfriend, Sarah. In less time than it takes to wave a walloping stick, Tom finds himself deep in the dark, dank Smeeth and has to face man-eating ogres, ghostly dogs, talking tree spirits, dragons, bears, wolves—and worst of all, his own ravenous hunger for pie.

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