Saint and sinner – new article in The Guardian
In: Cultural History| Historical Fiction| Sacred Hearts| Saints| Sarah Dunant| Women's Studies
4 Jul 2009Saturday morning , written after a rather wonderful publication party for Sacred Hearts which went went on way into the night. Woke up this morning to find an article I had written in today’s Guardian newspaper: about a fabulous novel I read by Julia O’Faolain while researching SH built around a 6th century saint, whom the novelist thinks began life as a bit of a sinner. Those of you interested in women getting their heads above the parapet of history should check it out. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/04/fiction. Happy to talk about it more…..
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July 19th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Thanks for this post!
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