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Paperback edition of this French-set historical fiction from the hugely popular author of "Chocolat, Blackberry Wine" and "Five Quarters of the Orange". "A writer of tremendous charm" "The Independent"
Synopsis
In seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, seeks refuge with her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste.