Margaret's thought patterns are often quotable. And within them, she experiences changes and turmoil sufficient for 5 decades. This is the adventure of her next 10 years. In fact, quite the opposite of dire and manipulative marriage bonds are foisted upon her at 13. She's centered in good intent, and yet the world gives her little to nourish or bloom her seed of intelligence. But overall it is a tale of a female who is a feisty saint. It's England countryside village during the 1340's and Plague is the catalyst.
But I would never conclude redundancy, because the pop and power of the personalities of Margaret and Brother Gregory required that verbiage. Reading this tale was an absolute delight. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different-to her tradition-bound parents, to the bishop’s court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Union-a Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. Married off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate. Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story.
The bestselling novel that introduces Margaret of Ashbury and launches a trilogy featuring this irrepressible woman.
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