A Vision of Light: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel-Fast Shipping

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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 , like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate. Threeclerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvationpersuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take onthe task.

As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself,Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. Incredibly, she survived, wasapprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. But most astonishing of all, Margarethas experienced a Mystic Union—a Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculousgift of healing. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different—toher tradition-bound parents, to the bishop’s court that tries her for heresy, andultimately to the man who falls in love with her.