Ebook {Epub PDF} The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader

The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader. Publication Date: ; Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction; Hardcover: pages; Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books; ISBN ; ISBN Robyn lives among vineyards in the countryside outside Canberra. She has written poetry, short stories and a non-fiction book. Her first novel, The Anchoress, was published in Australia, the UK, the United States and France.  · Publisher: Faber Faber. ISBN: Number of pages: Weight: g. Dimensions: x x 19 mm. Edition: Main. England, 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 www.doorway.ru: Robyn Cadwallader.

Compelling, evocative, and haunting, The Anchoress is both quietly heartbreaking and thrillingly unpredictable. Read more Read less © Robyn Cadwallader (P) Blackstone Audio, Inc. Robyn Cadwallader's powerful debut novel tells an absorbing story of faith, desire, shame, fear and the very human need for connection and touch. With a poetic intelligence, Cadwallader explores the relationship between the mind, body and spirit in Medieval England in a story that will hold the reader in a spell until the very last page. And so began my imagining into the head and heart of Sarah, my anchoress." - Robyn Cadwallader in her blog post 'The Cell: Real and Imagined' Image Left: The opening to an anchorite cell in Lindsell, Essex UK. Image Right: The anchorite cell in the north wall with a view to the altar at Lindsell, Essex UK.

The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader. Publication Date: ; Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction; Hardcover: pages; Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books; ISBN ; ISBN Robyn Cadwallader does the real work of historical fiction, creating a detailed, sensuous and richly imagined shard of the past. She has successfully placed her narrator, the anchoress, in that tantalizing, precarious, delicate realm: convincingly of her own distant era, yet emotionally engaging and vividly present to us in our own. An absorbing story of faith, desire, shame, fear, and the human need for connection, The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader is a haunting and compelling novel: both quietly heartbreaking and thrillingly unpredictable. Related collections and offers. Product Details. About the Author.