Impossible saints

By Michele Roberts

Subjects: English Religious fiction, Fiction, general, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, Women saints, Fiction, religious, Fiction, short stories (single author), Christian women saints

Description: A novel on our civilization's earliest liberated women, female saints. The heroine is St. Josephine, a not-so-saintly noblewoman who becomes a nun to avoid marriage, which would entail being told what to do by a man.