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For readers of The Birth of Venus, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and The Other Boleyn Girl, a historically lush, lyrical, and thoroughly enthralling novel about the forbidden love between a woman and a holy man and the moral and spiritual struggles of faith
Putnam
April 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 0399153179
Hardcover
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Historical
In 1896, the priest in a
small village in southern France suddenly came into
possession of
immense wealth. This much is true. What no one knows for
sure is where
his money came from. The history of the region suggests
that he may
have stumbled upon clues to a hidden treasure of the
Knights Templar.
An even more tantalizing possibility is that he discovered
coded
documents hidden in the structure of his church, documents
so
threatening to the Catholic Church that he was paid to keep
silent. At
his death under mysterious circumstances in 1917, his
secrets died with
him.
Yet there is one other person who may have
known
all-Marie Dernanaud, the priest's housekeeper and, some
say, his lover.
Interweaving the history of France at the turn of the
twentieth
century, scenes of ancient Judea, and the romantic and
religious
journey of a spirited and intense heroine, The Priest's
Madonna gives Marie a chance to tell her version of what transpired-
as well as
her own story of belief, doubt, and illicit passion.
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