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The Potter's Field (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #17)

Ellis Peters

Start date: March 15, 2024

Finish date: April 5, 2024

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Apr 04, 2008 Susan in NC rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I started reading the book from my library, then listened to the abridged audiobook with Sir Derek Jacobi narrating. I don’t like abridged books, but it was the only audiobook I could get, and he of course was Cadfael when I first saw the dramatization on PBS 30+ years ago!

This book opens in late August; the abbey has acquired the title land, which just happened to be held by a potter (hence the name), who left his wife of 15 years to enter the monastery as a monk. The parting was not easy, as ...more

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Feb 18, 2024 Jill rated it liked it

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This was a 3.5 star read for me. For some reason I just wasn't so interested in this one, as I have been with others.
The body of a buried woman was discovered in a field, recently acquired by the monks. I say body, but really it was just her bones, and so there was no way of identifying her. It seems that a potter and his wife had been the most recent inhabitants, but not for over year had it been, only tramps and beggars since the potter left. The potter had gone into the church as a monk, and ...more

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