- Fiction, Young women, History, Hermits
"England, 1255. Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and intimate.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Robyn Cadwallader
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781459692619
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