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Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A startling and strange debut novel about a young girl's desperate choice to isolate herself from the world 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. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world,...
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