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
“The book that the whole literary world can’t stop talking about.” —Marie Claire (Australia)“A considerable achievement.” —Sarah Dunant, The New York Times Book ReviewEngland, 1255: Sarah is only seve
Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven paces by nine, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a
Hotly contested, normality remains a powerful, complex category in contemporary law and culture. What is little realized are the ways in which disability underpins and shapes the operation of norms an
