EAN: 9781786492395

PILGRIMS - MATTHEW KNEALE TASCHENBUCH

An enthralling and wonderfully vivid novel from a master storyteller' Joseph O'Connor 'Kneale's
medieval world is animated with a refreshing lightness of touch' Sunday Telegraph 1289. A rich
farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pilgrim badges to sew
into her hat and show off at church. A poor  ragged villager is convinced his beloved cat is
suffering in the fires of purgatory and must be rescued. A mother believes her son's dangerous
illness is punishment for her own adultery and seeks forgiveness so he may be cured. A landlord
is in trouble with the church after he punched an abbot on the nose. A sexually driven
noblewoman seeks a divorce so she can marry her new young beau. These are among a ragtag band
of pilgrims that sets off on the tough and dangerous journey from England to Rome  where they
hope all their troubles and their prayers will be answered. Some in the group  however  have
their own secret reasons for going. Others  while they might aspire to piety  succumb all too
often to the sins of the flesh. A riveting  sweeping novel of medieval society and historic
Englishness  Pilgrims illuminates the fallibility of humans  the absurdities and consolations
of belief  and the very real violence at the heart of religious fervour.

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