Matrix /
By: Groff, Lauren [author.].
Publisher: London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2021Description: 260 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785151910; 1785151916; 9781785151903; 1785151908.Subject(s): Marie, de France, active 12th century -- Fiction | Nuns -- Fiction | Faith -- Fiction | Women poets, French -- Fiction | Visions -- Fiction | Biographical fiction | Historical fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216 -- FictionDDC classification: 813.6 Summary: Seventeen-year-old Marie, too wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning, expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey. Marie is strange - tall, a giantess, her elbows and knees stick out, ungainly. At first taken aback by life at the abbey, Marie finds purpose and passion among her mercurial sisters. Yet she deeply misses her secret lover Cecily and queen Eleanor. Born last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, women who flew across the countryside with their sword fighting and dagger work, Marie decides to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. She will bring herself, and her sisters, out of the darkness, into riches and power.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 813.6 GRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0083492 | ||
Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 813.6 GRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2 | Available | 0083491 |
Seventeen-year-old Marie, too wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning, expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey. Marie is strange - tall, a giantess, her elbows and knees stick out, ungainly. At first taken aback by life at the abbey, Marie finds purpose and passion among her mercurial sisters. Yet she deeply misses her secret lover Cecily and queen Eleanor. Born last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, women who flew across the countryside with their sword fighting and dagger work, Marie decides to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. She will bring herself, and her sisters, out of the darkness, into riches and power.