A whispered name
Subtitle: a novel
By: by William Brodrick.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780316731546; 9780316731553
Subjects: Monks -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Desertions -- Fiction; Trials (Military offenses) -- Fiction; Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at Larkwood, he is dismayed to hear her allegation. Herbert Moore had been one of the founding fathers of the Priory, revered by all who met him, a man who'd shaped Anselm's own vocation. The idea that someone could look on his grave and speak of a lie is inconceivable. But Anselm soon learns that Herbert did indeed have secrets in his past that he kept hidden all his life. In 1917, during the terrible slaughter of the Passchendaele campaign, a soldier faced a court martial for desertion. Herbert, charged with a responsibility that would change the course of his life, sat upon the panel that judged him. In coming to understand the court martial, Anselm discovers its true significance: a secret victory that transformed the young Captain Moore and shone a light upon the horror of war. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345).