Margaret is an eccentric woman for her time in that her interests lie in the healing arts, human psychology and the spiritual underpinnings of life. This book is all about getting to know the insightful and sweet-natured Margaret through hearing her narrate her spicy memoirs to the scandalized Brother Gregory. I enjoyed every page of this well-crafted, fast-paced tale of the charming and captivating Margaret of Ashbury. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different-to her tradition-bound parents, to the bishop’s court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Union-a Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. Married off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague.
As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate. The first book in the series, this bestselling novel introduces Margaret of Ashbury, a fourteenth-century Englishwoman with mystical abilities Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story.
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