Helpful Score: 1
I love historical novels! I don't love history books, so when I find a book that can weave historical information around a beautiful story....that's for me. Could not put this book down and because a lot of it is fiction, a story tale, I was able to learn so much about the ways of the 9th century. The power of the church, the lack of power of the female, in the home and in the community. The thought of a female child actually being intelligent enough to want to learn to read and write and actually being able to make that happen was incredulous in those times. Whether she was a real person or not was the question I was left with. I hope she was real and I want to think that she was real....such a special, brilliant woman.
