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'England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven paces by nine, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers, desires and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer and service to God. But as she slowly begins to understand, even the thick, unforgiving walls of her cell cannot keep the outside world away, and it is soon clear that Sarah’s body and soul are still in great danger…'

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Notes

  • Dedication: For Aneliese

  • Epigraph:

    'Tis not that Dying hurts us so –

    'Tis Living – hurts us more –

    But Dying – is a different way –

    A Kind behind the Door –

    The Southern Custom – of the Bird –

    That ere the Frosts are due –

    Accepts a better Latitude –

    We – are the Birds – that stay.

    –Emily Dickinson

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Sarah Crichton Books ,       2015 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
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      • Published 12 May 2015.
      ISBN: 9780374104252, 0374104255
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Faber ,       2015 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 5th February 2015
      ISBN: 9780571313327
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Faber ,       2016 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 7 April 2016.
      ISBN: 9780571313341, 0571313345
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Picador ,       2016 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 June 2016.
      ISBN: 9781250094674
Alternative title: Une autre idée du silence
Language: French
    • Paris,
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      France,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Denoël ,       2015 .
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      Extent: 400p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3 September 2015.
      ISBN: 9782207117729, 0374104255
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Best Reads – End of Story Deborah Bogle , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 20 December 2015; (p. 24)
Learning to Love the Dislocation : Reflections on Writing The Anchoress Robyn Cadwallader , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postmedieval : A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies. , Summer vol. 7 no. 2 2016; (p. 273-284) 'When reading about and researching the beliefs, customs and lives of people and societies in the past, we can often find ourselves thinking, 'How very unlike us they were.' And equally as often, 'How very like us they were.' This essay reflects on the ways the author negotiated this tricky territory when writing her novel The Anchoress, the first-person narrative of a thirteenth-century anchoress.' (Publication abstract)
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