The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner Fantasy [in] this enormously entertaining and

[in] this enormously entertaining and lovable book

author of The Patriots

and the thirst for knowledge

ISBN: 978-1681377964

from her bestselling The Time Traveler’s Wife to the less well-known Her Fearful Symmetry

The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner Fantasy [in] this enormously entertaining andSylvia Townsend Warners The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their