The French Carpenter

In AD1200, a young man - Gervase Pitt - is found half drowned on a Sussex beach by the teenaged Joan. Their meeting will lead to an adventure involving lords, clergy, the (so-called heretic) Cathars and infamous Knights Templar.Together with Nick, the autistic child they adopt, they must discover how the nearby Priory is trying to discredit the Baron for whom Gervase works and, more importantly, prove it is false.Their investigations cover much of Sussex and Surrey, before Nick's photographic memory comes to their aid.The French Carpenter is the first in a series of books covering the Pitt family's adventures during the first decades of the thirteenth century. It includes many real-life characters, who become embroiled in the machinations of evil-minded and ambitious people.