Faerie Knitting Av Alice Hoffman, Lisa Hoffman

The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets - about who...

En iskald kveld i januar roper en åtte år gammel jente i sinne til moren sin at hun bare skal forsvinne. Den samme kvelden dør moren i en bilulykke. Mange år senere lever kvinnen et stille liv som bibliotekar. En dag blir hun truffet av lynet, og...

With a sense of place that is uncanny, and vividly real characters whose lives don't run smooth and whose stories loop together across space and time, this is work from a favourite novelist.