Publication: Hamish Hamilton, 1995, London
First edition. Very fine in dust jacket. Story is set in England late in the 14th Century, a time of calamity such as few others have been, marked by war, plague and fear of hell-fire. Nicholas Barber, a young cleric, has left his diocese without the Bishop's permission. Finding himself without money he joins a troupe of traveling actors, a decision expressly forbidden to members of the clergy. But real trouble happens when the troupe decides to enact the murder of a 12 year old boy called Thomas Wells to the hostile and agitated townspeople. It's not long before they find themselves in appalling danger. Co-winner of the Booker Prize in 1995 along with the other co-winner Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient.
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