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Shropshire is Ellis Peters country - the beautiful border county that is the real world of her medieval mysteries. In this evocative book, the author takes us into the heart of the country which has been so much a part of her and her writing. Here she vividly describes the Roman road on the flank of the Long Mountain with its grand stormy view of the river below that she walked so often while writing The Heaven Tree and its sequels. She tells of her connections with the town of Shrewsbury, the setting of the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and St Paul featured in the Brother Cadfael novels. She traces the history of the county through its border castles, Georgian country houses and old Elizabethan town houses, old monasteries and the modern office blocks of a newly-created town and in doing so recounts her personal connection with the county of her birth, from her childhood spent near Coalbrookdale to her later years in Madeley, Telford.Synopsis
Shropshire is Ellis Peters' county, the world of her medieval mysteries. In this book she takes the reader into the heart of the county, describing the Roman Road and revealing her connections with the town of Shrewsbury and the setting of the Benedictine Abbey featured in the Cadfael novels. She traces the history of the country through its border castles, Georgian country houses and old Elizabethan town houses, old monasteries and the modern office blocks of the town. In doing so, she recounts her personal connection with the county of her birth, from her childhood spent near Coalbrookdale to her later years in Madeley, Telford.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
Peters's mysteries, both modern and medieval, are set in Shropshire. The author of the enormously popular Brother Cadfael series here brings the grace and intensity of her prose to this finely detailed look at her home shire in western England. Peters (the pen name of Edith Pargeter) explains that when she was young her family activities and her later education were based in her home county, noting that the area is in her blood and that ``the blood gets into the ink.'' Several specific sites utilized in her novels are illustrated among Ray Morgan's 55 lush, full-page color photos, including Long Mountains in The Heaven Tree and the Shrewsbury abbey of the Brother Cadfael chronicles. She discusses the region's history and geography in a casual yet satisfying way and gives care to describe the destruction and rebuilding of ancient churches. Readers who follow Peters as she moves from one medieval market town to the next, comments on the Welsh influence and describes Roman sites, will wish an area map had been included. (Mar.)Book Details
Published
April 28, 1999
Publisher
Sutton Publishing
Pages
173
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780750921480