A nun's story: Agnes Peppin and her cloistered sisters struggle to survive Henry VIIII's edict commanding the destruction of Shaftesbury Abbey during the English Catholic purge of the Tudor period, c.1535.
From cosseted seclusion to a world dominated by men and a fickle tyrant, the author shines a light on a perspective far from the top of Henry's court – that of ordinary people in an unstable royal landscape.
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