The Corner That Held Them (VMC)

By Sylvia Townsend Warner

Book Overview

A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844088049
• ISBN13: 9781844088041
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Virago
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.1" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Incredibly tedious

It is a story of a fictional nunnery in the 14th century. Between Cadfeal and Dame Frevisse. In those series the difficulties of living a cloistered life are the background. In this, they are the whole story. The petty, superstitious, entitled, ignorant lives grind on, and on and on, and on.