Prince Charles's interests antagonize Masons, former hippies and an
ultra-secret cadre devoted to Knights Templar history.The Duchy of
Cornwall has purchased the Garway Master House and environs for
Prince Charles and plans to turn it into a major craft center
snuggled on the border between England and Wales. Then, strange
happenings bring Merrily Watkins, Deliverance Coordinator for the
Church of England. When two people die, Merrily is advised to
resolve matters before the upcoming Friday the 13th anniversary of
Jacques de Molay's 1307 torture and demise. The antagonistic
history of the church and the Knights Templar is echoed by the
warring Gwilym and Newton families and the current English bishop
and archdeacon's ties to the Masonic order. In addition, Welsh
nationalists may be plotting to reseat one of their own as Prince
of Wales. A local vicar, a squire and a peer of the realm, formerly
hippies in residence at the Master House, will mislead Merrily, her
musician lover Lol and her daughter Jane before there's a discovery
and a fog-shrouded collision near an herbalist's cottage.Rickman
(The Remains of an Altar, 2007, etc.), a historian of the first
order, neatly segues between church policies of today and seven
centuries ago. Be prepared to read slowly, maybe even take notes.
(Kirkus Reviews)
NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA The Master House, close to the Welsh border,
is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its
surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the
Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its outbuildings are
frustrated when the specialist builder refuses to work there. 'This
is a place,' he tells the Prince's land-steward, 'that doesn't want
to be restored.' Directed by the Bishop of Hereford to investigate,
deliverance consultant Merrily Watkins discovers ancient
connections between the house and the nearby church, built by the
Knights Templar whose shadow still envelopes isolated Garway Hill
and its scattered communities. Why did all the local inns have
astrological names? What deep history lies behind the vicious feud
between two local families? And what happened here to intimidate
even the great Edwardian ghost-story writer M R James? When Merrily
learns that she - and even her daughter, Jane - are under
surveillance by the security services, she's ready to quit. But a
sudden death changes everything, and she returns to Garway to
uncover fibres of fear and hatred stitched into history and now
insidiously twisted in the corridors - and the cloisters - of
power.
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