A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel - Paperback

$19.00

A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel - Paperback

Name: A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel - Paperback
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SKU: 9780307237873
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by Judith Merkle Riley

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Book Overview

The first book in the series, this bestselling novel introduces Margaret of Ashbury, a fourteenth-century Englishwoman with mystical abilities

Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret's scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task.

As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Married off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Union--a Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different--to her tradition-bound parents, to the bishop's court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her.

ISBN	9780307237873
Author	Judith Merkle Riley
Publisher	Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	May 2006
Language	ENG- English
Pages	448
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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