Braided medieval and modern stories of an anchoress her handmaiden and the adjunct professor searching for themamp160across centuries as they each navigate ambition confinement and the patriarchy.The modern and medieval stories spiral in and out of each other intricate and vivid as the letters of illuminated manuscripts connected by the mysteries of paradox confinement and freedom loss and fulfillment.amp160Elizabeth Cunningham My Life as a Prayeramp160and The Maeve Chroniclesamp160amp8220HoltBrowning is adept at honing in on the passion for life nature and language that can sustain a person through the hardest times.amp8221amp160amp8212Nerissa Nieldsamp160Plastic Angelamp160and All Together Singing in the KitchenTwelveyearold Elinor is enclosed with an anchoress Lady Adela in a cell at Wenlock Abbey 14thamp160century England. Centuries later an adjunct professor of medieval studies discovers Elinors longlost book of hours on a research trip to England. HoltBrowningamp160explores womenamp8217s timeless struggle for personal agency as her unforgettable characters discover the burdens and rewards of faith and devotion. A mustread for fans of Julian of Norwich.