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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Member Reviews

  • Robin B
    • Rated 4 stars

    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 from present to past and back again. My only fault with this book is the ending wasn't satisfying. How grateful I was to find a sequel!

    Robin B wrote this review Wednesday, July 23 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Hannah Elphaba
    • Rated 0 stars

    I love this book. It always comforts me. If I read it when I'm upset or depressed, it usually makes me feel a lot better. Interesting historican fiction!

    Hannah Elphaba wrote this review Monday, March 10 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • BookSnake
    • Rated 5 stars

    I LOVED this book when I read it many years ago. One thing that has remained vivid in my memory all these years was Margaret's invention of forceps for childbirth. She had to keep them absolutely secret because there could be no tools or methods of any kind to ease childbearing, since that would be against the will of God. Or so they thought at the time.
    I haven't read any of the other books in the series. In fact, though I was vaguely aware that there was a sequel, I didn't know until I looked it up to put in on my book shelf that it was the first book in a full fledged series!

    BookSnake wrote this review Monday, February 11 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Patty K
    • Rated 5 stars

    One of those books you love to read again. Humorous, romantic, smart, magical and delightful.

    Patty K wrote this review Saturday, December 1 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Faye
    • Rated 5 stars

    I love this series!!

    Faye wrote this review Monday, November 5 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Beth M
    • Rated 5 stars

    one of my all time favs!

    Beth M wrote this review Tuesday, October 23 2007. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )
  • DoubtfulMuse
    • Rated 5 stars

    Such a fun book!

    DoubtfulMuse wrote this review Wednesday, October 3 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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