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The Hawk and the Dove

First Book in The Hawk And The Dove Series

by Penelope Wilcock

  • Paperback
  • 176 pages
  • Publisher: Lion Hudson
  • 12.7 x 19.6 x 1.6 cm

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Revealing and well researched first book in this unusually touching and human fiction series set in a medieval monastery
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The Hawk And The Dove is the opening title in this a series centred around the fictional Benedictine monastery of St Alcuin's, in Yorkshire, and set in the fourteenth century.

At the start of the first novel Father Peregrine is appointed Abbot, at the age of 45. Father Peregrine, whose name in religion is Columba, is an arrogant, impatient man, a hawk trying hard to be a dove, whose struggles to manifest the character he considers to be expected of an abbot provide much of the narrative.

Peregrine is surrounded by a company of flawed, human monks who are - for the most part - also serious about their calling, and who - again for the most part - come to love their driven and hard-driving leader. They lived six centuries ago, yet their struggles are our own-finding our niche; coping with failure; living with impossible people; and discovering that we are the impossible ones.

  • Author

    Penelope Wilcock

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Lion Hudson

  • Published

    February 2015

  • Edition

    3rd Revised edition

  • Weight

    114g

  • Page Count

    176

  • Dimensions

    12.7 x 19.6 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781782641391

  • ISBN-10

    1782641394

  • Eden Code

    4306606

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    Helen L Jenkins

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    This, the first of a whole series about Father Peregrine and the monastery, is an utterly charming and delightful book. It consists of stories told by a mother to her children about an ancestor of hers, Father Peregrine, and is very readable and absorbing. I remember thinking, as I read this, that it would be great to read to older children or to be read by early teens. Later in the series, the books become much more adult and demanding, though still wonderful. The characters are very well-drawn, the sense of time and place fascinating and the whole thing is profoundly Christian. The contrast between the little modern family in which the stories are told and the mediaeval tales works very well. A truly superlative book, in my opinion.

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