Knowledge Of Angels

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By: Jill Paton Walsh

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Paperback | 2 January 1998 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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A beautiful, magical novel.

It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders- one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment.

But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...

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"'A compelling medieval fable, written from the heart and melded to a driving narrative which never once loses its tremendous pace'" * Guardian * "'An irresistible blend of intellect and passion'" * Mail on Sunday * "'This remarkable novel resembles an illuminated manuscript mapped with angels and mountains and signposts, an allegory for today and yesterday too. A beautiful, unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance'" * Observer * "'Remarkable...Utterly absorbing...richly detailed and finely imagined'" * Sunday Telegraph * "'The lucidity of Jill Paton Walsh's style and the dexerity of the narrative are such that her book reads more like a good thriller than a weighty novel of ideas...An ingenious fable'" * The Times *

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