<![CDATA[Anchoress of Shere]]>

false <![CDATA[Anchoress of Shere]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175111637m/480526.jpg 480526 1 Anchoress of Shere is a compelling crime story, set in two different centuries. It depicts the story of a beautiful woman, Christine, as she is walled up alive in a church. The location is Shere in the County of Surrey, England. The historical records, which still exist, put the date at 1329. The twentieth-century chronicler of the fate of Christine Carpenter, the Anchoress of Shere, is a deranged Catholic priest, Father Michael Duval. Gradually, two separate sagas unfold: the bizarre world of the Middle Ages centred on Christine’s entombment, and the abduction of a young woman, Marda Stewart, in Guildford, Surrey, in 1967. In a series of exotic twists the medieval world of knights, debauchery, peasant uprisings and civil war merges into a modern hunt for a serial killer. The final piece of the puzzle is discovered in the late 1990s. The tragedy of the anchoress is based upon historical fact, yet it is also an exploration of the most dramatic themes of today: the power of belief, sexual freedom, spiritual bondage and the individual search for self-fulfillment. Above all, this is a gripping adventure story of a love so obsessive that it spans more than six hundred years. 468912 15 2 2003 Anchoress of Shere total:5|5:2|4:2|2:1| 5 20 8 5 4 0 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Feb 12 09:19:43 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 09:19:43 -0800 2008
In a very small town in England named Shere, a priest has embarked on a mission to chronicle the life of an actual historical figure, Christine Carpenter, known as the Anchoress of Shere. The catch is, that in his version of the story, he makes up a fictional...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 16 11:02:01 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 11:04:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Sep 20 14:21:02 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 14:23:08 -0700 2007 Paul Moorecraft
In 1329, Christine Carpenter, an actual personage who lived in the village of Shere in the Surrey woodlands, had herself walled up in a church cell to live out her remaining days in prayer and meditation. In our own time, scholars have come to th...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Feb 14 06:34:26 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 17:33:06 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Feb 18 09:55:53 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 09:56:05 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat May 16 11:23:11 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 11:23:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Dec 28 11:22:37 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 11:22:42 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jan 03 23:39:18 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 23:39:18 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=480526