![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But those few friends make it tolerable – just. Will has had a hard life with the monks: he is always hungry and cook Brother Martin's food is as horrible as it is insufficient. They are seeking something and Will thinks it has to do with an old legend that an angel was once killed near the abbey a feather from the angel's wing is preserved as a holy relic there.Īngels can't die, surely? What power would be great enough to shoot an angel dead with an arrow, as the story tells? And where is it buried? While the hob convalesces and the visitors probe for information, other sinister figures appear, such as Dame Alys and her white crow who seems able to understand human speech.īut there are benign forces as well, especially Brother Snail, who heals the hob, and the lay brother, Peter, who is a bit simple-minded but strong and loyal. His servant, Shadlok, is a sinister creature, with long silver hair and a criss-cross map of old scars on his face. One, Jacobus Bone, is a leper who was once a fine musician. The hob – hobs don't give out their proper names to humans – knows something about it and so do the two unaccustomed visitors who arrive at the abbey. We are in 1347, about 20 years after that other "murders in the monastery" book, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, and there has been a mysterious death – or at least a burial. ![]()
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