Brother Cadfael's Penance: 20 (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

by Ellis Peters

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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.
  • ISBN10 0751513709
  • ISBN13 9780751513707
  • Publish Date 5 October 1995 (first published 16 May 1994)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 288
  • Language English