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Meet the indomitable Marie de France.

Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse, too wild, too rough-hewn for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court. Woefully, she is sent to the muddy fields of Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey.

The abbey is a dreadful place: its inhabitants are on the brink of starvation, beset by disease, stoic and stern, yet plagued with an unholy tendency to gossip. Marie cannot help but pine for the decadence and comfort of France, her secret lover Cecily, her queen Eleanor and the very court that had spited her.

Yet Marie soon realises that, though she may be tied to a life of duty, she wields more power than she could have imagined. With the fearlessness that has always set her apart, she inspires her new sisterhood to awaken their spirits and finally claim what is theirs.

A dazzling work of literature, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality and ecstasy in a mesmerising portrait of consuming passion and womanhood.

©2021 Lauren Groff (P)2021 Penguin Audio Fiction Historical Fiction Romance Royalty Middle Ages
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Enjoyable and insightful listen. It highlights origination of nun convents I never thought about. Brilliant reading performance

Great book with excellent narrative

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A remarkable book, well research, about the fictional story of Marie of France. It gives an idea of life at that time but most importantly about overcoming the difficulties of life at any time. A very uplifting any enjoyable book

Excellent

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A lovely book if not a bit strange? It could have been exceptional, as the plot is different, but somehow it reaches interesting heights not exceptional!
The writing is flowery, but engaging.
You root for the main character Marie for the whole book and can’t help, but admire her.
The narration is excellent…

Short and sweet

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Great narration. Very inventive narrative, but dragged a bit. Rather too much focus on sex.

Brilliantly read. Interesting but not gripping.

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Interesting voice (from the writer) throughout the novel, beautifully interpreted.
Amazing to bring to life what may seem as a very uneventful dull story - an bastard ugly heir to a throne become an abbess and her life in the abbey, but it is done masterfully,

Brilliant performance. Riveting.

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