Beschreibung
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women. In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich. Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-three years. Cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women.