The Heaven Tree Trilogy · Book 2
The Green Branch
- Published
- 1 January 1962
- Pages
- 295
- ISBN-13
- 9780356130347
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Green Branch, published in 1962 at 295 pages, opens the middle volume of Edith Pargeter's Heaven Tree Trilogy, carrying Harry Talvace's tragedy on the Welsh Marches into the next generation as his son inherits both his talent and the enmities his father's life created. It appeared two years after The Heaven Tree and a year before The Scarlet Seed closed the trilogy, sustaining the same rigorously researched thirteenth-century Marches setting and Pargeter's interest in art, class and inherited conflict.
Its place in The Heaven Tree Trilogy
The Green Branch is book 2 in the The Heaven Tree Trilogy series. It follows The Heaven Tree. It is followed by The Scarlet Seed. See the full The Heaven Tree Trilogy reading order.
Better known to mystery readers as Ellis Peters, creator of Brother Cadfael, Edith Pargeter wrote extensively under her own name too, and The Heaven Tree Trilogy is her most celebrated work of straight historical fiction. Set on the Welsh Marches in the early thirteenth century, the trilogy follows Harry Talvace, a gifted stonemason and sculptor of low birth working under a proud, possessive nobleman, and the sculptor's passionate, doomed love for a woman above his station. The Heaven Tree (1960) establishes…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780356130347