Holy Fools
Author: Joanne Harris
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.Until a new Abbess is appointed, bringing with her a ghost from Juliette’s past, a man she has every reason to….Read More
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