A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel

Riley, Judith Merkle

ISBN 10: 0307237877 / ISBN 13: 9780307237873

Published by Crown, 2006

About this Item

This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Seller Inventory # DBV.0307237877.A

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: acceptable

About this title

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.