Joanna Stafford series: The Chalice : A Novel (Paperback)

from retropelocin

Nancy Bilyeau's The Crown introduced Joanna Stafford, a novice Dominican nun during England's Reformation period. In The Chalice her strife continues. Henry VIII has systematically destroyed the nunneries and monasteries of the country leaving hundreds of nuns, monks and priests, quite literally,...

from PatienceFortitude

I should have gone back and re-read at least part of The Crown before starting The Chalice. It took me a few chapters to re-orient myself into Joanna Stafford's world of Tudor intrigue. The cast of characters, their competing conspiracies and goals, became quite a tangle until I settled into the ...

from PatienceFortitude

I should have gone back and re-read at least part of The Crown before starting The Chalice. It took me a few chapters to re-orient myself into Joanna Stafford's world of Tudor intrigue. The cast of characters, their competing conspiracies and goals, became quite a tangle until I settled into the ...

from PatienceFortitude

I should have gone back and re-read at least part of The Crown before starting The Chalice. It took me a few chapters to re-orient myself into Joanna Stafford's world of Tudor intrigue. The cast of characters, their competing conspiracies and goals, became quite a tangle until I settled into the ...

from eyes.2c

... intrigue and mystery, lightly held and darkly embraced. Intrigue, persecution and mystery swirls inextricably around the life Joanna Stafford. Prophesied over at 17, she has become a woman of secrets, of her own and of others. She swings between penitence, fear, anger, love and hate. Having t...