I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak...' When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright.
Shrewsbury, 1139. The bloody civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud has swept through the country towards the rural security of Brother Cadfael’s monastery. The citizens of Worcester have fled, among them two orphaned children of noble stock, together with their tutor, a young nun. A Benedictine monk in whose care Lady Ermina...