A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel (Margaret of Ashbury Trilogy)
 

A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel (Margaret of Ashbury Trilogy)

by Judith Merkle Riley

The bestselling novel that introduces Margaret of Ashbury and launches a trilogy featuring this irrepressible woman

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... (read more)

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It wasn't easy being a woman in the 14th century. You had your place and it wasn't one in which you were allowed to be educated, literate, or to have an opinion. Much tragedy has occurred for poor Margaret but her kind spirit keeps you comforted as she tells her tale to the scribe her husband has hired. She's been given an extraordinary gift and she's got to be careful how she uses it in a place and time where you can be killed for what someone perceives as heresy. The story seamlessly moves...

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