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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Hmm... the Cadfael books are set are on the border between England and Wales, around 1100.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Ah. I haven't read any of them, and wasn't enamoured of the TV series, so not highly motivated.
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Fortunately, the books are better than the TV series. And it was Cadfael that I was speaking of. There seems to be enough to-ing and fro-ing across the border and Cadfael is Welsh, so saying "Medieval Wales" avoided being a bit repetitive with "Victorian England".
Back to Cadfael -- the books are "gentle" mysteries. To me, the plot moves slowly. I think this is a characteristic of not only the setting, but the time in which it was written.