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Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-o ld Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular an d mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her you th with ...[Read more]