It is winter 1139 and the tranquil life in the monastery gardens in Shrewsbury is again interrupted by violence. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two orphans from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an eighteen year old girl of great beauty, with thei
Virgin in the Ice
โ Scribed by Ellis Peters
- Publisher
- Warner Futura;Sphere
- Year
- 1982;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780751514018
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โฆ Synopsis
Review
'Charming and humorously told.' SPECTATOR
About the Author
Ellis Peters is one of the pseudonyms of Edith Pargeter who wrote several books under her own name and also Peter Benedict, Jolyon Carr and John Redfern. She was the recipient of the Crime Writers Association and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. She died in 1995.
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