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The Potter's Field

The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

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The Potter's Field

By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi
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About this listen

It is the Summer and Autumn of the Year of Our Lord 1143 in which the gentle monk, Brother Cadfael, is forced to leave the tranquility of his herb garden to find the whole truth behind the murder of a young women whose body was unexpectedly discovered in a newly tilled field recently acquired by the Shrewsbury Abbey in a land exchange.

Tony Award-winning actor Derek Jacobi narrates, using his thespian talents to bring the characters, suspense, and intrigue to life in this seventeenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael adventure.

Crack another case with Cadfael.©1996 Ellis Peters (P)1996 Phoenix Books, Inc. Amateur Sleuths Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Fiction Crime Suspense

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i like my Cafael more Welsh and although very well abridged, it's not her best story.

good listen but not the best oration or plot.

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Derek Jacobi does a marvellous job. brings the story alive. hope I can. get more of these.

marvellous

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It is, as are all the Cadfael Chronicles, perfectly executed and uses the English language with the precision of a surgeons scalpel rather than the clumsy bludgeon that it has sadly become.

The reading of this tale is utterly atmospheric and I would expect nothing less from one of the most prestigious members of the Royal Shakespeare Company it has ever had the good fortune to number.

Cadfael the self-effacing and studious worldly-wise hero transports us back to an era when rival royal factions battled for power in England and Wales was a kingdom in its own right with its own laws and customs. Long before our identity and culture were later to be violently suppressed by the Norman invaders, our history and stories re-written or dismissed at the whim of the newcomers and we were treated as strangers in our own lands.

I will not give any details of what happens in this story, if you really want to know then it is here for you to listen to and discover for yourself. It will certainly do you no harm to listen.



No new tale under the sun

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Not the most satisfying Chronicle as the range of experience is narrower
But it is a classic tale of jealousy and loss. Well written and maintains the high standard of characterisation as other cChronicles.

Love betrayed.

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