Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters - ISBN: 9780751513707
Paperback
Civil War threatens a monk who breaks vows to find his son.

Brother Cadfael's Penance

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    1 December 1995

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Summary

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 the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780751513707
ISBN-10:0751513709
Author:Ellis Peters
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Time Warner Paperbacks
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:1 December 1995
Weight:150g
Dimensions:178mm x 140mm x 18mm
Series:Cadfael Chronicles
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Critics Review

As usual, Ellis Peters writes with quietly compelling expertise and an eye for character.

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

About The Author

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters is one of the pseudonyms of Edith Pargeter who wrote several books under her own name and also Peter Benedict, Jolyon Carr and John Redfern. She was the recipient of the Crime Writers Association and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. She died in 1995.

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