Description: The Corner That Held Them by Warner, Sylvia Townsend, ISBN 0241454816, ISBN-13 9780241454817, Brand New, Free shipping in the US One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty Sarah Waters
The 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 re-creates a world run by women.
As 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 Supplement
Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page Sunday Times
Magnificent Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph
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Book Title: The Corner That Held Them
Author: Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Language: english
