Holy Fools

by Joanne Harris | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0552770019 Global Overview for this book
Registered by aboojum1 of Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on 12/8/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by aboojum1 from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, December 8, 2006
'Holy Fools is set in 17th century France, and the central character is Juliette, a former actress and rope dancer who has given up her travelling life to become a teaching nun at a remote abbey. Juliette has settled with her young daughter into an existence very different from that she knew, and she finds comfort from the advice of the wise and friendly abbess.

Harris brilliantly delineates both phases of her heroine's life: the colourful earlier era and the new demands of the semi-cloistered life. Things change radically when the abbess dies and her place is taken by an 11-year-old girl whose appetite for reform quickly destroys much that Juliet has come to love in her new life. What makes the book so refreshingly original is not just the unusual structure (the heroine's dual life alone is handled with radiant detail), but the surprising new trajectory the narrative takes after the death of the abbess, as everything Juliette was used to begins to go wrong.' (From Amazon review.)


Journal Entry 2 by aboojum1 at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, May 27, 2011

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