{"product_id":"9781460757970","title":"Book Of Colours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Robyn Cadwallader fashions words with the same delicate, colourful intensity that her 14th-century illuminators brought to their illustrated manuscripts.\" SARAH DUNANT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed novel \u003cem style=\"font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0em;\"\u003eThe Anchoress\u003c\/em\u003e - hailed by the \u003cem style=\"font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 0em;\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e as \"finely drawn... a considerable achievement\"-comes a profound and moving historical novel about the importance of creativity and the power of connection\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn London, 1321, at a time of political upheaval, three people are drawn together in a small shop in Paternoster Row around the creation of a magnificent book, an illuminated manuscript of prayers. The book has been commissioned by a wealthy noblewoman, Lady Mathilda Fitzjohn, as a status symbol to showcase her family's improving station.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Dancaster begins work on the manuscript along with his wife Gemma, a talented illuminator in her own right, although she must hide her skill as the guild forbids women. Into their lives walks the mysterious Will Asshe, a gifted artist, but a man hiding a shadowy past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the baronial revolt increases tensions within London and Lady Mathilda has to grapple with her changing fortunes once her husband rides off to war, completing the book becomes a fraught task. Even though the commission has seemed to answer the aspirations of each of these people, their own desires and ambitions threaten its completion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn poetic and transportive prose, Cadwallader illuminates the roiling and turbulent world of the early fourteenth century in a compelling story of power, status and the role of women in a forgotten time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Anchoress\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"So beautiful, so rich, so strange, unexpected and thoughtful-also suspenseful. I loved this book.\" Elizabeth Gilbert, author of \u003cem\u003eCity of Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A detailed, sensuous and richly imagined shard of the past.\" Geraldine Brooks, author of \u003cem\u003ePeople of the Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robyn Cadwallader","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46897507795093,"sku":"9781460757970","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781460757970_0d380308-53b4-4398-b1b7-6dce4fa72d84.jpg?v=1776888494","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781460757970","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}