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Tiernan has an unusual ability to project herself into the heads of her characters. We hear their different voices: Edith's chatty exuberance, Thorgot's earthiness, and Aldwin's more Latinate cadences. We see Thorgot's spiritual struggles as he has to learn humility as a novice, and Edith's black misery at her husband's rejection. Tiernan wears her considerable erudition lightly, and the reader is guided gently through the transformation from a Saxon Church to one more directly controlled from Rome. But her writing is also very much anchored in the physical world. Birds sing, food has a scent and flavour, and the wind is bitingly cold. This longer and more complex work marks Tiernan's debut as a significant historical novelist. -- Fiona Hook * Church Times *

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Katharine Tiernan is a Northumbrian by birth and spent many childhood afternoons on the shores of Lindisfarne. She studied English Literature at York University and worked as a teacher and community artist. By the turn of the millennium, both Katharine and her Australian husband were hankering for the wide-open spaces of the north and moved back to Northumberland. Her novels, set in the Anglo-Saxon world of early Christianity, reflect her interests in literature, spirituality and the inspirational landscapes of the north.

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