One of the great British novels of the twentieth century a narrative of extraordinary reach power and beauty Sarah WatersThe nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world but the world still finds ways to trouble them whether it is through fire floods pestilence a collapsing spire jealous rivalries a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars As we follow their daily lives over three centuries this masterpiece of historical fiction recreates a world run by womenAs an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals Also as it happens a work of high frequent comedy George Steiner The Times Literary SupplementSpellbinding One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page Sunday TimesMagnificent Philip Hensher Daily Telegraph
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