![]() Her first night inside the walls is spent in an incandescent rage so violent that the dispensary mistress, Suora Zuana, is dispatched to the girls cell to sedate her. Ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, sixteen-year-old Serafina is willful, emotional, sharp, and defiantyoung enough to have a life to look forward to and old enough to know when that life is being cut short. And the arrival of Santa Caterinas new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. ![]() The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under Gods protection. ![]()
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