Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, howling with rage and hormones and determined to escape. While on the other side of the great walls, counter-reformation forces in the Church are pushing for change, inside, Serafina's spirit and defiance ignite a fire that threatens to engulf the whole convent. SACRED HEARTS is a novel about power, creativity and passion - both of the body and of the soul. Hidden history brought alive by a wonderful storyteller, renowned for her Italian Renaissance novels.
Dunant casts a spell with words, painting a vivid picture of convent life in Italy in the 16the century the gruesome, the pure, the cruel and the good - Australian Women's Weekly'She has managed to paint a minutely detailed picture of Renaissance mores and convent life that pulls the reader in and keeps them submerged in a fascinating and unfamiliar world until the very last page- Courier Mail In delving beyond the stone walls of religious life, Dunant unveils a world teeming with human frailty and unrequited love - Who magazine Dunant's language is vivid, bringing warmth to the flintiest characters...Dunant triumphs in sensitively recreating the incongruous realities that defined a nun's life. - Sun Herald
Sarah Dunant is a cultural commentator, award-winning thriller writer and author of a trilogy of novels set in renaissance Italy exploring women's lives through art, sex and religion.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844083305 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844083306 |
| Title | Sacred Hearts |
| Author | Sarah Dunant |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2010-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2010 |
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