- Title:
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The Anchoress
- Written by:
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Robyn Cadwallader
- Read by:
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Madeleine Leslay
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 25 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2015
- Available Date:
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April 01 2015
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486285853
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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'A detailed, sensuous and richly imagined shard of the past ... emotionally engaging and vividly present.'
Geraldine Brooks, bestselling author
From a remarkable new Australian author comes The Anchoress, a story set in the thirteenth century within the confines of a stone cell measuring seven paces by nine. Tiny in scope, but universal in themes, it is a wonderful, wholly compelling fictional achievement.
England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven paces by nine, 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, with all its dangers, desires and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer and service to God. But as she slowly begins to understand, even the thick, unforgiving walls of her cell cannot keep the outside world away, and it is soon clear that Sarah's body and soul are still in great danger ...
Robyn Cadwallader's powerful debut novel tells an absorbing story of faith, desire, shame, fear and the very human need for connection and touch. With a poetic intelligence, Cadwallader explores the relationship between the mind, body and spirit in Medieval England in a story that will hold the reader in a spell until the very last page.
'Sarah’s story [in The Anchoress] is so beautiful, so rich, so strange, unexpected and thoughtful – also suspenseful ... I loved this book.'
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic
'Intense, atmospheric and very assured ... this is one of the most eagerly anticipated novels of the year.'
Caroline Baum