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Aelred's Sin

Lawrence Scott author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Allison & Busby

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Author's other work includes the novel "Witchbroom"

Robert de la Borde leaves the Caribbean for England after hearing that his brother, Jean Marc, has died. Visiting the monastery Jean had entered in the 1960s, Robert pieces togther his brother's life; his emotional suffering and his struggle to balance his sexual impulses with his love of God.

'Aelred's Sin is suffused with perfumed memories of the tropics and the heat of broken desires' Marina Warner 'Unfailingly sincere' Times Literary Supplement

  • Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Caribbean and Canada 1999
  • Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book 1999

ISBN: 9780749003746

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 431g

304 pages