Sacred Hearts
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Sacred Hearts
By (Author) Sarah Dunant
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
26th March 2013
3rd January 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2010
Physical Properties
Paperback
480
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 31mm
320g
Description
1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara. Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair and forced into the convent of Santa Caterina, renowned for its superb music. Serafina's one weapon is her glorious voice, but she refuses to sing. Madonna Chiara, an abbess as fluent in politics as she is in prayer, finds her new charge has unleased a power play - rebellion, ecstasies and hysterias - within the convent. However, watching over Serafina is Zuana, the sister in charge of the infirmary, who understands and might even challenge her incarceration.
Author Bio
Sarah Dunant is the author of six crime novels for which she won two Silver Daggers. Cultural commentator - for many years she presented The Late Show - she was editor of War of the Words (Virago 1994). Her two previous novels, TRANSGRESSIONS and MAPPING THE EDGE, were the subject of major acclaim.
