{"product_id":"books-the-corner-that-held-them-by-sylvia-townsend-warner","title":"The Corner That Held Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah Waters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Magnificent' Philip Hensher, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53767540277521,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780241454817.jpg?v=1783937146","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-corner-that-held-them-by-sylvia-townsend-warner","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}