Bibliograph

The hermit of Eyton Forest, Ellis Peters

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The hermit of Eyton Forest, Ellis Peters

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The hermit of Eyton Forest

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

884344358

Responsibility statement

Ellis Peters

Series statement

The fourteenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Summary

Brother Cadfael's pastoral life is upended by the disappearance of a young boy and the arrival of a saintly hermit. The year is 1142, and England is in the grip of civil war. Within the cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the upheavals of the outside world. It starts with the sad demise of Richard Ludel, Lord of Eyton, whose ten-year-old son and heir, also named Richard, is a pupil at the abbey. The boy refuses to surrender his newly inherited powers to Dionysia, his furious, formidable grandmother. A stranger to the region is the hermit Cuthred, who enjoys the protection of Lady Dionysia, and whose young companion, Hyacinth, befriends Richard. Despite his reputation for holiness, Cuthred's arrival heralds a series of mishaps for the monks. When a corpse is found in Eyton forest, Brother Cadfael must devote his knowledge of human nature to tracking down a ruthless murderer

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