TWO GREAT BOOKS BY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR SALLIE MUIRDEN!
1. REVELATIONS OF A SPANISH INFANTA - WINNER OF THE 1996 HARPERCOLLINS FICTION PRIZE
Madrid, 1650: The painter Velazquez becomes obsessed by the twelve-year-old infanta he's been commissioned to paint, a child on the brink of becoming a woman. Around them swirls the life of the Hapsburg court, rich and exotic, a palace of birth, love and loss. As the painter struggles with his portrait, the infanta's story must be told...
A vivid, sensual tale of art and life set in seventeenth-century Spain.
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2. WE TOO SHALL BE MOTHERS
A nun whose heart has grown too big for her body ...
An underwater almshospital where patients float on mattresses moored to the walls...
A Motzartian singing city where earrings fall from the sky...
In eighteenth-century France, young Marie-France tumbles out of the convent into a world of revolution, turmoil and change. At odds with her vocation, she abandons her cloistered life and embarks on a journey that will include the dance academy of Avignon and a fly-away coach ride to the legendary city of Vienna. It is a journey toward's enlightenment, identity, love and - possibly - motherhood.
In a time of great upheaval Marie-France explores new worlds both personal and public; places where she is confronted by reality, but buoyed by magic...
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