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Women in the Wall

Julia O'Faolain
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  • ISBN 9780571281534
  • Weight: 354g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 298mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Aug 2011
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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'I am hungry for your presence. I hanker for the great blaze of your glance which when you turn it on me, will burn out the husk of my body and draw my soul to you.'

Julia O'Faolian's second novel, first published in 1973, offers a rich, vivid portrait of the political and religious turmoil of sixth-century Gaul, wherein we find Radegunda, wife of King Clotair having been seized by him as a prize of war. Radegunda builds a convent, a refuge for the Brides of Christ, and there becomes renowned for her austerity and mysticism. Her religion, however, is fanatical, and her quest for sainthood will serve to undermine the seeming calm of the retreat she has made.

'Vibrant and strange... [a] journey into a darker, wilder moment of history.' Sarah Dunant, Guardian
About Julia O'Faolain
Julia O'Faolain was born in London in 1932. Her novel No Country for Young Men was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was brought up in Cork and Dublin, educated in Paris and Rome and married an American historian in Florence. She lived for many years in the US.

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