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Original Title:	The Heaven Tree Trilogy: The Heaven Tree, the Green Branch, the Scarlet Seed
ISBN:	0446517089 (ISBN13: 9780446517089)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Heaven Tree #1-3

The Heaven Tree Trilogy (Heaven Tree #1-3)

Edith Pargeter

Hardcover | Pages: 899 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 967 Users | 112 Reviews

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Title	:	The Heaven Tree Trilogy (Heaven Tree #1-3)
Author	:	Edith Pargeter
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 899 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1993 by Warner Books (NY) (first published 1960)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Medieval. European Literature. British Literature

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A trilogy of novels set in twelfth-century England and Wales--The Heaven Tree, The Green Branch, and The Scarlet Seed--chronicles the adventures of master stone carver Harry Talvace; Ralf Isambard, Lord of Parfois; and their two sons.

Set on the volatile, hotly disputed Welsh border, this full-bodied, swift-moving story of deadly politics, clashing armies, and private passions sweeps the reader into its characters' grand quest for justice and vengeance. The trilogy focuses on Harry Talvace, who bears stamped on his face the lineage of Shrewsbury's Norman conquerors. Born to aristocratic parents and nursed by a stone mason's wife, he grows up fiercely loyal to his breast-brother, the sunny, irresistibly charming Adam. Harry also discovers that he has a gift--the ability to carve stone with the sure hand of genius.

In his fifteenth year, Harry's devotion to Adam and his obsession to sculpt set into motion the thrilling tale of Volume One, The Heaven Tree. Rebelling against his father and fleeing England to save Adam, Harry finds his destiny entangled in the affairs of commoners and kings, divided by two women--the courageous dark-haired Gilleis and the beautiful courtesan Benedetta--and pledged to the brooding, mysterious Lord of Parfois, Ralf Isambard, who sponsors Harry's monumental creation of a cathedral. And while Wales and France challenge England's crown, these men and women follow their desires toward jealousy, pitiless revenge, and passion so madly glorious neither time nor a merciless execution can end it.

In Volume Two, The Green Branch, Harry's son, young Harry Talvace, is drawn into the fabulous intrigues of the court of Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, and bound by a blood oath to find and kill his father's old enemy, Isambard. Yet the threads that bind his life to the ruthless Isambard are not so easily severed, as Harry falls under the spell of the aging warrior lord.

The concluding volume, The Scarlet Seed, brings full circle this tale of implacable enmity and unshakeable loyalty. As a kingdom shudders under the flames of civil war and captor becomes captive, the final siege of Parfois creates a climax to this tale so majestic, noble, and heartbreaking no reader will ever forget it.

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One of my favorites. Sometimes difficult to read, sometimes a pure pleasure. History sort of bent around a story, but well worth it. The general events are accurate for the time and the real life characters inserted, so the creative license to fit them to a well written story is perfectly legitimate. Its moving because it is a story of learning to understand the differences in all of us and the self-imposed goals we place on ourselves. They don't always turn out the way we want them to, and

The writing in this historical novel was beautiful and engaging, and the characters were vivid. The settingthe Welsh border of England during the reign of King Johnprovided plenty of tension and violence to carry the plot. I loved the first third of the book and wished it had continued in a similar vein throughout. What I didnt love, however, was the too-good-to-be-true goodness of Harry, the hero of the story, whose only flaw seems to be his sense of compassionate justice that sets him at

This trilogy had all my favorite things. History of Wales and England during the turbulent 13th century, stone masons building a church much like Pillars of the Earth, characters you either hated or loved, and each edition left me needing to pick up the next book to see what happened. I even liked the way it ended, weaving together all of the pieces rather seamlessly. I loved it.



4/22/17Amidst the annual spring reading slump, I'm going through "old" favorites, hoping to capture the remembered pleasure ...page 188 : "Harry went on foot through the town, downhill by the curving streets in the sharp, cool light of the morning. Nine years had not greatly changed Shrewsbury. The narrow shop-fronts between their dark, timbered portals, the leaning gables serrated against the pale, pearly sky were as he remembered them, and the people who rubbed shoulders with him were

I've always enjoyed Brother Cadfael mysteries, so I was keen to give this book by the same author (under a different name) a try. It was wonderful, truly fabulous. It's the sort of book that will take up residence in my mind and add a new dimension to many things for me from here on out.

I bought these books in a bookstall in the Leeds train station in 1969, when I was 15, and they rocketed to the top of my favorites list, where they remain to this day. Fascinating characters, a great story. Until I discovered Dorothy Dunnett, these were the measuring stick by which I measured all other historical fiction.