MERE PB – DANIELLE GILES

"A Sunday Times Book of the Year A Press Association Book of the Year Beautifully written, you will be drawn into the claustrophobic world of the mere, where sinners fear the retribution of both God and the devil – Laura Shepherd-Robinson, bestselling author of The Square of Sevens ‘Haunting and beautiful . . . Even in Mere s brutality, there is a rare tenderness to be found’ – Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The Lamb Norfolk, AD 990. Deep in the Fens, an order of holy sisters lives in quiet isolation, cut off from the outside world by a treacherous marsh known as the mere. Convent healer Hilda and her fellow nuns follow God’s path under the steely guidance of their abbess. But when a young servant boy goes missing in the marsh, rumour and division spread like wildfire through the community and the abbess s grip falters. Where is the boy? Who took him? Why can he not be found? Then, newly arrived Sister Wulfrun has a vision: a curse is upon them and change must be brought. As the convent is swept up in a fight for its very survival, Hilda finds herself caught in her own battle between her conscience and her growing feelings for the enigmatic Wulfrun . . . ‘A forbidden and passionate love story which held me captivated to the last page’ – Anya Bergman, author of The Witches of Vardo"