Critical Praise

“Robyn Cadwallader does the real work of historical fiction, creating a detailed, sensuous, and richly imagined shard of the past. She has successfully placed her narrator, the anchoress, in that tantalizing, precarious, delicate realm: convincingly of her own distant era, yet emotionally engaging and vividly present to us in our own.”

—Geraldine Brooks, author of CALEB’S CROSSING and MARCH