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I went to the library and found a book that is set in 1066, in (I presume) northern England.

Think about that for a second.

I mean, it's not the Regency period! And not London or surrounding area! I am so very sick of all the neverending set-in-the-early-nineteenth-century novels, with the protagonists eventually becoming affiliated with the nobility, and all the balls and gowns and dances and so on and so on...