Description
Product ID: | 9780751513707 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Cadfael Chronicles |
Title: | Brother Cadfael's Penance |
Subtitle: | 20 |
Authors: | Author: Ellis Peters |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Time Warner Paperbacks |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1995-10-05 |