HOLY FOOLS

Author: Joanne Harris / Country: United Kingdom / United Kingdom
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Set in 17th-century France against a backdrop of terror and religious frenzy. Juliette seeks refuge in a remote abbey and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Then her past turns up as a haunt in the guise of a man she has every reason to fear. Forced by circumstances to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV becomes the catalyst for massive upheaval in France. A new appointment is made, and Juliette's new life begins to unravel. For the new Abbess is Isabelle, the eleven-year-old child of a corrupt, noble family. Worse, Isabelle has brought with her a ghost from Juliette's past, masquerading as a cleric, a man she has every reason to fear.