# Brother Cadfael’s Penance

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- Book: [Brother Cadfael’s Penance](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-pargeter/brother-cadfaels-penance) ([Brother Cadfael’s Penance.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-pargeter/brother-cadfaels-penance.md))
- Authors: [Edith Pargeter](https://www.bookquiver.com/edith-pargeter)
- Publisher: Sphere
- ISBN: 978-07-5151-370-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2001-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.