{"title":"Penelope Wilcock","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"remember-me-paperback-2","title":"Remember Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Leaves one full of hope and love ... an excellent book.\" - Mary Gliserman, former Dean, The Daniel Academy, Kansas City \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e14th century Yorkshire: the time of Chaucer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFather William has been a monk all his adult life. But something is changing, deep within him. He feels it - from his belly, from his heart, from his soul - the reality of what is streaming forth unchecked. There is no denying it. This is love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYet William de Bulmer has more to worry about than simply upholding his vows to God, to the brothers of St Alcuin's, and to Abbot John. The abbey is running out of money, and Father William must decide whether to take matters into his own hands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenelope Wilcock unlocks the story of one man's struggles, mistakes, and heart's longings. What does it mean, to risk everything? 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A feast of characters and ideas.\" - Adrian Plass, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Diary\u003c\/i\u003e series \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMadeleine Hazell and William de Bulmer have been married a year. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is a healer, a wise woman, intelligent and blunt. He is both an ex-monk and an ex-abbot, a man accustomed to authority, at home with figures - but perhaps less capable when shutting up chickens for the night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey are deeply, irrevocably in love. And every conversation may become a battlefield that leaves them wounded and resentful. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the aged monk who handles the finances dies, Father John, the Abbot of nearby St Alcuin's Abbey, finds himself critically short-handed. Who will handle the rents and provisions? John is a gifted infirmarian, a shrewd leader, but not an estate manager. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith rising panic he turns to his friend William, the man who renounced his vows for love - only to find that his own pastoral skills may be required in matters matrimonial. But what does a monk know of matrimony? Except that everyone is only human, and kindness is the oil of grace for both cloister and hearth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe series continues with \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Thread.\u003c\/i\u003e Pen Wilcock publishes a popular blog at www.kindredofthequietway.co.uk.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103184031967,"sku":"9798312824322","price":17.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oBcySKeRp89798312824322.webp?v=1781090447"},{"product_id":"the-hardest-thing-to-do-paperback","title":"The Hardest Thing to Do - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e14th century Yorkshire: the time of Chaucer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSometimes things must get worse before they get better. Lent is cold, wet and austere, and the brothers long for their new abbot, John Hazell, to take up the reins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut on the first day of John's abbacy, Prior William de Bulmer rocks up at their door, seeking refuge from his numerous enemies. His priory is a charred ruin, and he has nowhere else to go. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAppalled to be taking in this man who so ill-treated their beloved former abbot, the community must address old resentments and new divisions. Can grace prevail? Will their refugee receive healing - or spread poison? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her fourth book in the series, Penelope Wilcock explores the difficulties of seeing someone else's point of view, and the cautions necessary to rebuild trust. 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