A dog tells Boy to run and the two escape. Secundus and Boy head for Rome on a ship. When Secundus comes back for Boy, a mysterious man brings them into a room where Secundus expects to find the fourth relic, but it is a trap.
Boy begins to suspect he is, in fact, an angel.
As he cleans his hump, he notices that it has feathers. Secundus and Boy take a boat into Avignon. He is trying to get to heaven to see his dead wife and child. Secundus says that he himself died a thousand years ago and escaped hell. Secundus, seeing this hump, suspects that Boy is an angel. Secundus’s series of questions reveal that Boy does not drink or urinate. He comforts himself by talking to the animals (dogs, goats, and horses) he encounters on route.Ī pack of hounds rips off Boy’s clothing, revealing his hump. Secundus is on a quest for seven relics that will save him: rib, tooth, thumb, shin, dust, skull, and tomb.
The rib burned when he touched it, and it now sits in a sack, which Boy carries strapped to his hump. In their travels, Secundus explains how he found the rib of St. Cook reluctantly gives a silver cup and asks them to pray for her and her master-turned-husband, Sir Jacques. He not only asks for Boy to attend him but also for a donation. Readily perceiving Cook's lack of sincere concern for Boy, the pilgrim, whose name is Secundus, tells her that he is going to Saint-Peter’s-Step. This curious pilgrim asks Cook if he may take Boy with him as a servant. Boy is climbing tree branches to pick apples when he encounters a traveler who looks like a pilgrim. The mistress of the house and their three children succumbed to the bubonic plague. Boy lives on a manor in France under the tutelage of Cook, a harsh mistress who inherited the estate when the master suffered an injury to the head that left him an invalid.
Though Boy is awkward, shy, self-conscious, and socially ostracized owing to his hunchback, he proves to be truly one-of-a-kind. It is against this backdrop that Boy narrates his story. This coincided with Avignon Papacy, a period of several decades in the fourteenth century when the Popes resided in Avignon owing to the hospitality French Popes encountered in Rome. The Book of Boy is set in the middle ages in the Holy Year of 1350, a year in which hundreds of pilgrims went to Rome in the wake of the bubonic plague. Murdock made a name for herself with her debut children’s novel Dairy Queen (2006). The Book of Boy (2018) is a young adult novel by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.
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