EAN: 9780241454817

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS THE CORNER THAT HELD ...

'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach 
power and beauty' Sarah Waters The 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. 'As an act of imagined history this novel
has few rivals. Also  as it happens  a work of high  frequent comedy' George Steiner  The Times
Literary Supplement 'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the
last page' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Philip Hensher  Daily Telegraph

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