5/28/2023 0 Comments Sacred Hearts by Sarah DunantHer first night inside the walls is spent in an incandescent rage so violent that the dispensary mistress, Suora Zuana, is dispatched to the girl's cell to sedate her. The sixteen-year-old daughter of a noble family from Milan, Serafina is willful, emotional, sharp, and defiant-young enough to have a life to look forward to and old enough to know when that life is being cut short. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina in the Italian city of Ferrara noble women find space to pursue their lives under God's protection.
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