Sacred Hearts (Hardcover)

from kraaivrouw

I didn't know quite what to expect from this novel about 16th century convent life. I really like good historical fiction, but the convent setting wasn't all that appealing. I'm so glad I read it anyway. This was a wonderful & thought-provoking book. The characters (even the minor ones) are fully...

from keywestnan

An engaging historical novel, set in a convent in Renaissance Italy. The story starts off with the arrival of a new novice who has been brought to the convent against her will. But the real drama is the power struggle within the convent hierarchy, between the Abbess who is trying to resist the Co...

from akreese

Each time I picked up Sacred Hearts and read it I felt like I was entering into the quiet hallways of a convent. While the plot of this book has it's fill of drama and conflict, the portrayal of the nuns in the convent was such that you get a full picture of what their daily life is like with its...

from mrstreme

The third novel in her Italian Renaissance series, Sarah Dunant transported her readers into the everyday lives of nuns in her latest book, Sacred Hearts. Set in a convent in Northern Italy, Dunant continued her pristine historical writing through strong characters and women's quests to find free...

from GMac

The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice se...