A Vision of Light

Author: 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 Carthusi….Read More

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