The Heaven Tree Trilogy · Book 3
The Scarlet Seed
- Published
- 1 January 1963
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN-13
- 9780356145631
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Scarlet Seed closed the trilogy in 1963, the shortest of the three at 288 pages, completing the story of Harry's son inheriting both his father's talent and his enmities.
Its place in The Heaven Tree Trilogy
The Scarlet Seed is book 3 in the The Heaven Tree Trilogy series. It follows 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780356145631
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708830581