A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel

Riley, Judith Merkle

ISBN 10: 0307237877 / ISBN 13: 9780307237873

Published by Crown, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel
• Publisher: Crown
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307237877
• ISBN 13: 9780307237873
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

The first book in the series, this bestselling novel introduces Margaret of Ashbury, a fourteenth-century Englishwoman with mystical abilities

Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task.

As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Married off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Union—a Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different—to her tradition-bound parents, to the bishop’s court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her.

About the Author

Judith Merkle Riley is a professor of political science and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.