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The Anchoress (2015)

di Robyn Cadwallader

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Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML: England, 1255. What could drive a girl on the cusp of womanhood to lock herself away from the world forever? Sarah is just seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a cell that measures only seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth as well as pressure to marry the local lord's son, she decides to renounce the world�??with all its dangers, desires, and temptations�??and commit herself to a life of prayer. But it soon becomes clear that the thick, unforgiving walls of Sarah's cell cannot protect her as well as she had thought. With the outside world clamoring to get in and the intensity of her isolation driving her toward drastic actions, even madness, her body and soul are still in grave danger. When she starts hearing the voice of the previous anchoress whispering to her from the walls, Sarah finds herself questioning what she thought she knew about the anchor-hold and about the village itself. With the lyricism of Nicola Griffith's Hild and the vivid historical setting of Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, Robyn Cadwallader's powerful debut novel tells an absorbing story of faith, desire, shame, fear, and the very human need for connection and touch. Compelling, evocative, and haunting, The Anchoress is both quietly heartbreaking and thrillingly unpredictable… (altro)

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Very interesting. A thoughtful and absorbing historical debut novel that speaks to faith, desire and hope. Haunting beautiful.
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ShannonRose4 | Sep 15, 2020 |

Pretty sure I came across this because of a CR review. A short-ish novel about a woman who anchoress to become the anchoress of an abbey. In the middle ages the practice of walling up a woman gave prestige and extra bonus holiness to the church. I’m extremely fascinated and a little repulsed by the practice, but books about characters who chose these constrained lifestyles interest me greatly. What I liked about the book was it’s quietness. We are with Sarah through her very human struggles with the physical and emotional tolls of such a life, and though there are dramatic parts, it still feels sort of subdued. (

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janemarieprice | Jun 19, 2020 |

An outstanding debut novel which explores the psychology of extreme devotion: in 13th-century England a 17-year-old girl is willingly "buried alive," shut up in a single room for the rest of her life so she can devote herself to prayer and contemplation. But no (wo)man is an island: she has two maids and a confessor, although curtains are supposed to separate them at all times. A cat also insists on joining her. Richly evocative of its time and place yet very accessible. (

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ElyseBell | May 25, 2019 |

Interesting premise, which for some reason reminds me of the Keepers from Marian Zimmerman Bradley's Darkover series (each Tower had a Keeper...).

I will get around to reading this eventual,
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FourFreedoms | May 17, 2019 |

A gentle, thoughtful debut novel, The Anchoress tells of Sarah, a teenage girl from thirteenth-century England who chooses to live the most enclosed type of religious life. Permanently locked into a small chamber attached to the wall of a rural parish church, Sarah "dies" to the world around her in order to spend her life in unfettered contemplation and prayer. That, at least, is the hope—but although Sarah can no longer see the faces of those with whom she communicates, or even a scrap of sky, she finds that it's not so easy to remove herself from ongoing events or from the consequences of her past. Robyn Cadwallader clearly knows a great deal about medieval Christian understandings of the body, gender, and faith, but wears that learning lightly—this is not a novel which feels didactic. Just as impressively, Cadwallader has created a cast of characters whom the modern reader can find sympathetic but whose way of thinking is of their time. (

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Robyn Cadwallader plays gracefully with medieval ideas about gender, power and writing: if the Bible is the written word of God, who may read it? What might women learn from their exclusion? The classic early-modern poetic comparisons between the room, the womb and tomb are lightly carried and masterfully used at what is probably the gentle climax of the story.

aggiunto da zapzap | modificaThe Guardian, Sarah Moss (Feb 28, 2015)

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Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
Robyn Cadwallader	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	calcolato
Baignot, Arnaud	Traduction	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Chambon, Perrine	Traduction	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Leslay, Madeleine	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Wells, Mary Jane	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
West, Steve	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

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ACT Book of the Year Award (Lista breve – 2016)

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Varuna LitLink NSW Byron Bay Unpublished Manuscript Award (2010)

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Hartham, Wiltshire, England, UK (as England)

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'Tis not that Dying hurts us so—
'Tis Living—hurts us more—
But Dying—is a different way—
A Kind behind the Door—

The Southern Custom—of the Bird—
That ere the Frosts are due—
Accepts a better Latitude—
We—are the Birds—that stay.

— Emily Dickinson

’Tis not that Dying hurts us so —
’Tis Living — hurts us more
— But Dying — is a different way —
A Kind behind the Door —
The Southern Custom — of the Bird —
That ere the Frosts are due —
Accepts a better Latitude —
We — are the Birds — that stay.
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I had always wanted to be a jongleur, to leap from the shoulders of another, to fly and tumble, to dare myself in thin air with nothing but my arms and legs to land me safely on the ground.

I HAD ALWAYS WANTED to be a jongleur, to leap from the shoulders of another, to fly and tumble, to dare myself in thin air with nothing but my arms and legs to land me safely on the ground.

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Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:

England, 1255. What could drive a girl on the cusp of womanhood to lock herself away from the world forever?

Sarah is just seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a cell that measures only seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth as well as pressure to marry the local lord's son, she decides to renounce the world�??with all its dangers, desires, and temptations�??and commit herself to a life of prayer.

But it soon becomes clear that the thick, unforgiving walls of Sarah's cell cannot protect her as well as she had thought. With the outside world clamoring to get in and the intensity of her isolation driving her toward drastic actions, even madness, her body and soul are still in grave danger. When she starts hearing the voice of the previous anchoress whispering to her from the walls, Sarah finds herself questioning what she thought she knew about the anchor-hold and about the village itself.

With the lyricism of Nicola Griffith's Hild and the vivid historical setting of Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, Robyn Cadwallader's powerful debut novel tells an absorbing story of faith, desire, shame, fear, and the very human need for connection and touch. Compelling, evocative, and haunting, The Anchoress is both quietly heartbreaking and thrillingly unpredictable

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