- Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Berkley; Reissue edition (Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 042514321X
- ISBN-13: 978-0425143216
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.5 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 256,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was the first Sister Frevisse book I've read, and I can't wait to read more. The characters are vivid, our sleuth multi-dimensional, and the historical details seem well researched (although I'm no medievalist). This book has a great little twist at the end, and will keep you guessing!
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The Novice's Tale, a book by Margaret Frazer is a suspensful tale interlaced with deception, lurid accounts, and quite frankly strange surprises. Of all places the murder mystery takes place in the quiet walls of a fifteenth century convent, run by a motley bunch of inquisitive nuns who don't quite conform to the sterotypes of the'straitlaced' sister. The narrator and main character is Thomasaine, who is a novice or a so-called 'student nun', hence the title the Novice's Tale.' She had a predilection to becoming a nun, because she was attracted to the profession's quiet, and peacful atmosphere. Sadly, Thomasaine recieved more than she bargained for. Through the innocent perception of Thomasaine the story provides the reader with a very origional twist to the grisly murder mystery. The irony in this situation, is that the credulous Thomasaine believes everything in the convent is and will be innocent, and then in her first begining weeks, as a novice she is forced to witness unholy and most certainly uninnocent acts of murder. The good thing that amounts from the grusome murder or murders, is that, it forced Thomasaine to break out of her anti-society shell. I must say the murder or murders that took place were pretty crazy. Well, crazy enough to push the extremely reserved Thomasaine back into society. In the Novice's Tale any reader will be able enjoy suspence, action, nuns in action, humor , and sentimental value. The Novice's Tale is a easy and fun book to read wether your an addicted book junkie or just a picture browser.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is only the second book that I have read by Margaret Frazer but I was so impressed by the attention to historical detail that I will now be on the lookout for any others that I can lay my hands on. It is very refreshing at a time when a lot of the historical novels being churned out at the moment are mediocre in the extreme to find an author who loves her subject and is prepared to take the time to research it. Many authors think that the time taken to research their subject matter is better employed churning out another book. Some reader's may say that there is too much historical detail but I thought that it added more credence to the story.
The novel takes place in 1431 and has as the leading character Sister Frevisse who is soon called to hone her skills as a solver of mysteries. The arrivalo of the lusty blaspheming dowager lady Ermentrude is a shock to the system of most of the inhabitants of St. Frideswide convent, but before she can get what she came to the convent to retrieve, her niece, the novice Thomasine, the calm and tranquility of the convent is even more disrupted when she is found murdered.
The novel takes place in 1431 and has as the leading character Sister Frevisse who is soon called to hone her skills as a solver of mysteries. The arrivalo of the lusty blaspheming dowager lady Ermentrude is a shock to the system of most of the inhabitants of St. Frideswide convent, but before she can get what she came to the convent to retrieve, her niece, the novice Thomasine, the calm and tranquility of the convent is even more disrupted when she is found murdered.
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The Novices Tale
I did not read the bio of Margaret Frazer, but I knew she was American as soon as I came across 21st century `americanisms` in the text. Read more
Published 3 days ago by Nell Davis
Neither good nor bad
Good Potboiler. Didn't set my pulse racing; although wallowing in the atmosphere of a medieval monastery was quite a pleasant way to spend an afternoon. Read more
Published on 12 April 2010 by C. W. Knowles
The First Book in the Sister Frevisse Series
This is only the second book that I have read by Margaret Frazer but I was so impressed by the attention to historical detail that I will now be on the lookout for any others that... Read more
Published on 27 May 2008 by J. Chippindale
This book is extremely captivating and unpredictible.
This book was a little boring at first, but later on it began to make more sense. You become very entralled in the tale. Dame Frevisse acts as another Sherlock Holmes. Read more
Published on 17 Nov 1998
This book was about a beginner nun.
This book I thought was very good. It was about a beginner nun who accepts her final vows. But a serious problem takes place, where a murder is committed. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 1998
A "Tale" of mystery and murder!
I read this book for a junior year British Lit course and found it very interesting. Margaret Frazer brings to reality the life of a novice in a priory in the 1400's which at... Read more
Published on 9 Nov 1998
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