Cadwallader, Robyn.
Summary: "A startling and strange debut novel about a young girl's desperate choice to isolate herself from the world England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015