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Sarah Crichton Books
May 2015
On Sale: May 12, 2015
Featuring: Sarah
320 pages
ISBN: 0374104255
EAN: 9780374104252
Kindle: B00OO10X80
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
England, 1255. What could drive a girl on the cusp of
womanhood to lock herself away from the world
forever? Sarah is just seventeen when she chooses
to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a cell
that measures only seven by nine paces, at the side of the
village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved
sister in childbirth as well as pressure to marry the local
lord's son, she decides to renounce the world--with all its
dangers, desires, and temptations--and commit herself to a
life of prayer. But it soon becomes clear that the
thick, unforgiving walls of Sarah's cell cannot protect her
as well as she had thought. With the outside world clamoring
to get in and the intensity of her isolation driving her
toward drastic actions, even madness, her body and soul are
still in grave danger. When she starts hearing the voice of
the previous anchoress whispering to her from the walls,
Sarah finds herself questioning what she thought she knew
about the anchorhold, and about the village
itself. With the lyricism of Nicola Griffith's Hild
and the vivid historical setting of Hannah Kent's
Burial Rites, Robyn Cadwallader's powerful debut
novel tells an absorbing story of faith, desire, shame,
fear, and the very human need for connection and touch.
Compelling, evocative, and haunting, The Anchoress is
both quietly heartbreaking and thrillingly unpredictable.
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