The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women.

Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner

Brand: Penguin Books

Number of pages: 352

Binding: Paperback

Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 19 mm