- Title:
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The Fire and the Rose (MP3)
- Written by:
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Robyn Cadwallader
- Read by:
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Meg McKibbin
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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14 hours 1 minutes
- MP3 size:
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608 MB
- Published:
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August 01 2023
- Available Date:
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August 01 2023
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781460748985
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/HarperCollins audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Award winning author
Australian author
ACT Notable Book Awards
Shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
Longlisted ARA Historical Novel Prize 2023
From Robyn Cadwallader, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Anchoress and Book of Colours, comes a vibrant, richly imagined and deeply moving story set in the turbulent world of 13th-century England.
England, 1276. Forced to leave her home village, Eleanor moves to Lincoln to work as a housemaid. She’s prickly, independent and curious, her prospects blighted by a port-wine birthmark across her face. Unusually for a woman, she has fine skills with ink and quill, and harbours a secret ambition to work as a scribe, a profession closed to women.
Eleanor discovers that Lincoln is a dangerous place, divided by religious prejudice, the Jews frequently the focus of violence and forced to wear a yellow badge. She falls in love with Asher, a Jewish spicer, who shares her love of books and words, but their relationship is forbidden by law. When Eleanor is pulled into the dark depths of the church’s machinations against Jews and the king issues an edict expelling all Jews from England, Eleanor and Asher are faced with an impossible choice.
'A remarkable, profound story ... Cadwallader recreates the medieval world with the rigour of a scholar and the intensity and emotion of a poet.'
Lee Kofman, author of The Writer Laid Bare
'Luminous, lyrical and deeply moving, Cadwallader's writing fills the senses and sings with detail and authenticity.'
Karen Viggers, author of The Orchardist's Daughter
'A heartbreakingly timeless tale, richly imagined and wondrously alive.'
Nigel Featherstone, author of My Heart Is a Little Wild Thing