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Set in seventeenth-century France against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer. Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV becomes the catalyst for massive upheaval in France. A new appointment is made, and Juliette's new life begins to unravel. For the new Abbess is Isabelle, the eleven-year-old child of a corrupt, noble family. Worse, Isabelle has brought with her a ghost from Juliette's past, masquerading as a cleric, a man she has every reason to fear...
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Holy Fools, Joanne Harris
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- Publicado en
- 2004
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- Título
- Holy Fools
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Joanne Harris
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0552151408
- ISBN13
- 9780552151405
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Romance, Novelas históricas, Mujeres, Ficción contemporánea, Romance contemporáneo, Francia, Realismo mágico, Siglo XVII, Monasterios, Abadías, Malabaristas
- Primera publicación
- 2003
- Título original
- Holy Fools
- Calificación
- 3,4 de 5
- Descripción
- Set in seventeenth-century France against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer. Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV becomes the catalyst for massive upheaval in France. A new appointment is made, and Juliette's new life begins to unravel. For the new Abbess is Isabelle, the eleven-year-old child of a corrupt, noble family. Worse, Isabelle has brought with her a ghost from Juliette's past, masquerading as a cleric, a man she has every reason to fear...