A really interesting starting point - the life of ‘the smallest man in England’. A life filled, as so many, with family, love, regret, friendship and more.

* spoiler alert ** Enjoyable story based on the true life of the queens dwarf (thank you Google for the information and the Van Dyke image).
I really enjoyed the first part of the book,finding his feet at court and growing up.
Less so the second half for me,with the war raging I felt too much time was spent on possible romance.
As a whole I enjoyed the book. 
It's a time period I knew nothing about,and I feel a tiny bit more knowledgeable now.

With thanks to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster uk for this book.

From the very start The Smallest Man took ahold of me and didn't let go until the very end. Nat Davy is a wonderful character as are the friends that he makes as the book goes on. You find yourself rooting for him as the book goes on.

The Smallest Man is also a history book as it tells you about the civil war that is going on in England and how it affected not only the people at the top, The King and Queen but how it affected even the 'Smallest Man'

I also liked the writing style of Frances Quinn.

I will be recommending this book to all my friends and family.

Wasn't keen on this. I wondered who it was for. The notes say 'adults' but it feel like a middle grade book., It's very simplistic and so surface-level. No real sense of time and place. There's a lot of history notes in it but no real feeling of being there. I read this book straight after I read Blood & Sugar, by Laura Shepherd-Robinson - and Quinn might want to take a look at that for how to bring a real feeling of time to her work.

I really liked how story starts and how it flows through to the end. I also liked certain characters and obviously the main character is full of wit. But and I am sorry to say it’s a big one. I did not get the sense it was set during the civil war. It was all too glossed over and just too clean and tidy. Yes there were villains but they didn’t scare me. It felt a bit flat to me. Also what or who is Francis Quinn?? And also there are points in the story where the smallest man is mentioned then the next sentence does not line up or even make sense. I am not sure if this is because of an issue with kindles formatting or an editing error. Overall the plot is good and the characterisation is good just there’s a lack of place and time.