Customer Reviews
Guilt is something we have to live with - By: B. Chandler, 21 Oct 2002 
So much mystery, so many solutions, & you guest wrong. Yet Brother Cadfael stays with it until all is revealed. In the process we all must think & learn something of our selves.
From the back cover:
A woman's skeleton is discoveredin a local potter's field, since the potter Ruald, left his family to answer a calling form God, everyone concludes that the body belongs to his wife, & that Ruald murdered her when she tried to prevent him from taking the tonsure.
This may not be the book but the film has depthin its own right.
excellent - By: S. HADAVI, 23 Sep 2001 This is an exdellent adaptation of Ellis Peter's The potter's Field. Brother Ruald, although married finds he has a vocation, much to his wife's dismay. He enters the Abbey at Shrewsbury despite her protests. His wife seems to have accepted her husband's decision & left her home. A few years later the remains of a woman are found on the land where Ruald lived. Is Brother Ruald as saintly as he seems, or is he a murderer?Why is Ruald's landlords son eager to prove that the body is not Ruald's wife? Brother Cadfael investigates.This video will not disappoint those who enjoyed the book as it adheres closly to the plot.
