- Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
- Year: 2018
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 336pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 214x132mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9780715652916
- Product code: 514999
The Butcher's Daughter
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Thrown out by her family, Agnes Peppin expects to spend her life as a nun at Shaftesbury Abbey. When Henry VIII dissolves the monasteries, she must use all her wits and courage to survive in a hostile, unfamiliar world.
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'Historical fiction at its finest.' @MargaretAtwood
It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished, leaving her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of Shaftesbury Abbey.
While Agnes grapples with the complex rules and hierarchies of the sisterhood, King Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Head of the Church of England. Religious houses are being formally subjugated, monasteries dissolved, and the great Abbey is no exception to the purge.
Cast out with her sisters, Agnes is at last free to be the master of her own fate. But freedom comes at a price as she descends into a world she knows little about, using her wits and testing her moral convictions against her need to survive - by any means necessary...
It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished, leaving her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of Shaftesbury Abbey.
While Agnes grapples with the complex rules and hierarchies of the sisterhood, King Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Head of the Church of England. Religious houses are being formally subjugated, monasteries dissolved, and the great Abbey is no exception to the purge.
Cast out with her sisters, Agnes is at last free to be the master of her own fate. But freedom comes at a price as she descends into a world she knows little about, using her wits and testing her moral convictions against her need to survive - by any means necessary...
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