Quiet as a Nun
A Jemima Shore Mystery
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2015
Summary
One of Lady Antonia Fraser’s gripping Jemima Shore mysteries, set in a secluded nunnery.
‘I lit the candle and began rather gingerly to climb up the ladder. Then I heard a distinct sound above my head. A scrape on the floor, an irregular jarring on the floor above my head, like something rocking …’
A nun is dead - her emaciated corpse has been discovered locked in the tower of Blessed Eleanor’s Convent. The tragic consequence of a neurotic young woman committi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780228440 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780228449 |
| Author: | Antonia Fraser, Lady Antonia Fraser |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Jemima Shore |
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A judicious mixture of puzzle, excitement, and terror … [the story] is written with humour and sympathy and has a heroine of whom, happily, it is promised that we shall know more
Fraser writes with fluent flair - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers. She was awarded the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000 and was made a DBE in 2011 for services to literature.
Her previous books include Mary Queen of Scots, King Charles II, The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, which won the Wolfson History Prize, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 and The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829. Must You Go?, a memoir of her life with Harold Pinter, was published in 2010, and My History: A Memoir of Growing Up in 2015. She lives in London.
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