The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
From a remarkable new Australian author comes The Anchoress, a story set in the thirteenth century within the confines of a stone cell measuring seven paces by nine.
Tiny in scope but universal in themes, it is a wonderful, wholly compelling fictional achievement. It's not often that a stunning new Australian novel comes to an agent via a Twitter call out. It's not often that a novel comes along that makes everyone in the publishing house stop, read and fall in love with it. It's not often that we get to publish a novel which has been the subject of a major bidding war and will be published simultaneously by Faber in the UK and Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the US. It's not often that we get a novel like The Anchoress.
Set in the thirteenth century, The Anchoress tells the story of Sarah, only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven paces by nine, 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 and service to God.
But as she slowly begins to understand, even the thick, unforgiving walls of her cell cannot keep the outside world away, and it is soon clear that Sarah's body and soul are still in great danger...
Sometimes freedom means locking yourself away...
Format: Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3 x 2.3 | 530g
Publication Date: 02 Mar 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publication City/Country: Sydney, Australia
Language: English
ISBN10: 0732299217
ISBN13: 9780732299217
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks and creasing along the edges, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.