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Brother Cadfael's Penance

20

Ellis Peters author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:5th Oct '95

Should be back in stock very soon

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In his twentieth chronicle Brother Cadfael is involved in an investigation of a uniquely personal nature, for as he observes, 'Before I was a Brother I was a father.

The cloistered walls of Shrewsbury Abbey have always protected Brother Cadfael from the raging Civil War. But when fighting escalates between Empress Maud and King Stephen, the war takes a deadly step closer to him. Taken prisoner in the battle for Maud's land is Olivier de Bretagne, Brother Cadfael's own son- born as a result of a brief encouter thirty years earlier. Now Brother Cadfael resolves to plead for his son's release at a peace conference scheduled to take place in Coventry; but there is no sign of Olivier there. After much soul searching, Cadfael makes the difficult decision to break his monastic vows, leaving Coventry without permission- because he knows he must do everything in his power to find his son.

A more attractive and presupposing detective it would be hard to find. SUNDAY TIMES As usual, Ellis Peters writes with quietly compelling expertise and an eye for character. WOMAN'S JOURNAL

ISBN: 9780751513707

Dimensions: 178mm x 140mm x 18mm

Weight: 150g

288 pages