The corner that held them [Paperback]
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-19782020
Books
Find it!
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this marvelous imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.
The corner that held them [Paperback] / Sylvia Townsend Warner.
London : Penguin Books, 2020.©1948
343 pages ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1948.
9780241454817 (pbk)9780241454817
823.912
English
399074
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
---|---|---|---|
Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | WARN | Available |