The Leper's Companions

By: Julia Blackburn

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Paperback | 15 May 2000 | Edition Number 1

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224 Pages

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One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of the villagers - the priest, the shoemaker's wife, the fisherman's daughter and the leper - on a pilgrimage- across the North Sea to Venice, and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land. With the magical imagination that has illuminated her previous books, Julia Blackburn travesl with her pilgrims. At first she follows from a distance, but gradually she pulls closer until the five centuries between their time and ours dissolve and the author has entered their world. A spellbining novel by one of the most original writers currently at work, THE LEPER'S COMPANIONS is an extraordinary evocation of the medieval world - a book about birth and death, about destiny, about the courage to let go without the certainty of surviving, to journey with no certainty of return.

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"As beautifully written and as profoundly researched as all Julia Blackburn's work" * Spectator * "A remarkable evocation of another time and another frame of reference" * Daily Telegraph * "Julia Blackburn has an extraordinary talent for thinking herlsef into other worlds... Reading her book, you experience the uncanny sensation that you have somehow always known these places" * Evening Standard * "She wears her talents like a modern Renaissance woman with elegance and affable ease" * The Times *

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