Robyn Cadwallader combina un profundo interés académico por la literatura medieval con su obra creativa, explorando temas de agencia femenina y sexualidad. Su escritura a menudo se inspira en figuras históricas y míticas, examinando sus luchas y triunfos dentro de las limitaciones sociales. Profundiza en el poder de la narrativa y la construcción de la identidad femenina, utilizando técnicas literarias innovadoras. La prosa de Cadwallader es conocida por su perspicaz análisis y sus cautivadoras representaciones de personajes que desafían las convenciones.
From Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress, comes a deeply profound and moving novel of the importance of creativity and the power of connection, told through the story of the commissioning of a gorgeously decorated medieval manuscript, a Book of Hours.
"England, 1255. Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers, desires, and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer. But it soon becomes clear that even the thick, unforgiving walls of her cell cannot keep the outside world away, and Sarah's body and soul are still in great danger"--