The breath of peace
Wilcock, Penelope2016
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Madeleine Hazell and William de Bulmer have been married a year. She is a healer, a wise woman, practical, intelligent and blunt. He is not only an ex-monk, but an ex-abbot, a man accustomed to authority, a gifted administrator, at home with figures - but less capable in such matters as shutting up chickens for the night. They are deeply in love. And every conversation may become a battlefield that leaves both wounded and resentful. When the aged monk who served as cellarer dies, Father John, the Abbot of nearby St Alcuin's Abbey, finds himself critically short-handed. Who will handle the rents? The provisions? He is a gifted infirmarian, a capable leader, but estate management is beyond his competence. With a sense of rising panic he turns to his friend, the man who renounced his vows for love, the former Father William - only to find that his own pastoral skills may be required in matters matrimonial.
Main title:
The breath of peace / Penelope Wilcock.
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Imprint:
Oxford : Lion Fiction, 2016.Oxford : Lion Fiction, 2016.
Collation:
176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Hawk and the dove ; 7.
ISBN:
9781782641735 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1507424