Author: HARRIS, JOANNE
Title: Holy fools / Joanne Harris
Description: London : Doubleday 2003. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 429 pages; Physical description: 429 p. ; 19 cm. Summary: Set in seventeenth-century France against a backdrop of witch trials. regicide and religious frenzy. this is the story of Juliette. one-time actress and rope-dancer. Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur. her young daughter. in the remote abbey of Sainte 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. A new appointment is made. and Juliette's new life begins to unravel. For the new Abbess is Isabelle. the eleven-year-old child of a corrupt. noble family. Worse. Isabelle has brought with her a ghost from Juliette's past. masquerading as a cleric. a man she has every reason to fear. Subjects: France - History - 17th century - Fiction.ISBN: 0385603649. Weight in Kg appr.:

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