![]() ![]() ![]() Marie cannot help but pine for the decadence and comfort of France her secret lover Cecily, her queen Eleanor, and the very court that had spited her. The abbey is a dreadful place: its inhabitants are on the brink of starvation, beset by disease, stoic and stern, yet plagued with an unholy tendency to gossip. To her dismay, she is sent to the muddy fields of Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey. MEET THE INDOMITABLE MARIE DE FRANCE Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse, too wild, too rough-hewn for 12th-century courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court. 'A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers' minds. 'Luminous, divine, her masterpiece' DAISY JOHNSON The new historical novel from the bestselling author of Fates and Furies. ![]()
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