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The Corner That Held Them
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- Length
- 14 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics; 2021
- Catalogue Number
- 18114
- Synopsis
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.