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Robyn Cadwallader

Robyn Cadwallader has published numerous, prize-winning short stories, poems and reviews, as well as a book of poetry and a non-fiction book based on her PhD thesis which explored attitudes to virginity and female agency in the Middle Ages. She lives among vineyards outside the Australian capital when not travelling to England for research, visiting ancient archaeological sites along the way.

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Title:

The Fire and the Rose

Written by:

Robyn Cadwallader 

Read by:

Meg McKibbin 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

12 

Duration:

14 hours 6 minutes 

Published:

August 01 2023 

Available Date:

August 01 2023 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781460748978 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/HarperCollins audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 49.95

AUD$ 49.95

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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