Holy Fools
β Scribed by Joanne Harris
- Book ID
- 100118785
- Publisher
- Transworld;Royal National Institute of the Blind
- Year
- 2011;2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1407056506
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β¦ Synopsis
In seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, seeks refuge with her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Until a new Abbess is appointed, bringing with her a ghost from Juliette's past, a man she has every reason to fear.
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Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV becomes the catalyst for massive upheaval in France.
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