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More famous for her sensuous novels, Michele Roberts now writes a short, sharp and witty novel in the spirit of Muriel Spark. 'A triumphant tour de force' Time Out

An assured tour de force of passion. The power with which it reclaims spiritual and sexual strength for women cannot be ignored." Time Out London

An orphan, Genevieve lives an isolated existence as a maid in a village cafe on the Normandy coast in the early 20th century. Forced to flee the village, she comes under the spell of a spinner of words, a poet who captivates every woman around him.

In the early 1800s in a small village in rural France, a peasant woman named Louise summons her priest. Fearing she is about to die, Louise begins her final confession to the bored cleric and reveals a lifelong secret involving a famous woman writer, a young English poet, and a wicked and unusual crime. Inspired by the lives and loves of the eighteenth-century pioneer of women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft, and her contemporary, William Wordsw...

What does it take for a woman to be judged saintly? In this wily, wonderfully original novel, Michle Roberts tells the story of the fictional Saint Josephine: her life and death, her childhood and evolution from woman to nun to abbess, her unlikely canonization. The more we discover, the more incredible her sainthood seems. Who was Saint Josephine? Craven nun or fearless miracle worker? Pious role model or seductress? Illuminating Saint Josep...