![]() With her is her personal confessor and spiritual guide, Père Colombin, a man Soeur Auguste knows all too well. When a new abbess - the daughter of a corrupt noble family elevated by the murder of King Henri IV - arrives at Sainte Marie-de-la-mer, she does not arrive alone. But the peace she has found in re-mote isolation is shattered five years later by the events that follow the death of her kind benefactress, the Reverend Mother. After the birth of her daughter, she takes up the veil, and a new name, Soeur Auguste. In the year 1605, a young widow, pregnant and alone, seeks sanctuary at the small Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer on the island of Noirs Moustiers off the Brittany coast. In Holy Fools, her most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, she transports us back to a time of intrigue and turmoil, of deception and masquerade. With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly beneath the surface of rustic village life. ![]()
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