Bibliograph

The fire and the rose, Robyn Cadwallader

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The fire and the rose, Robyn Cadwallader

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The fire and the rose

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Robyn Cadwallader

Summary

England, 1276: Forced to leave her home village, Eleanor moves to Lincoln to work as a housemaid. She's prickly, independent and stubborn, her prospects blighted by a port wine birthmark across her face. Unusually for a woman, she has fine skills with ink and quill, and harbours a secret ambition to work as a scribe, a profession closed against women. But Eleanor discovers that Lincoln is a dangerous place, divided by religious prejudice, the Jews frequently the focus of violence and forced to wear a yellow badge. Eleanor falls in love with Asher, a Jewish spicer, who shares her love of books and words, but their relationship is forbidden by law. A priest threatens to expose her, and she is pulled into the dark depths of the church's machinations against Jews - and when the King issues an edict expelling all Jews from England, Eleanor and Asher are faced with an impossible choice

Target audience

adult

Classification