The Heaven Tree Trilogy · Book 1

The Heaven Tree

by Edith Pargeter

Published
1 January 1960
Pages
364
ISBN-13
9780356123233
Type
novel

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About this book

The Heaven Tree opens Edith Pargeter's trilogy in 1960 at 364 pages, following gifted stonemason Harry Talvace and his doomed love for a woman above his station on the thirteenth-century Welsh Marches.

Its place in The Heaven Tree Trilogy

The Heaven Tree is book 1 in the The Heaven Tree Trilogy series. It is followed by The Green Branch. 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…

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