A riveting tale, set in southern France in the 1300s, about a mute, albino girl (Auda) who is fascinated with the newly introduced "cloth parchment," aka paper. On the one hand, paper can give her the voice she never had, and allow her to explore her creativity and feminist ideas that are just starting to formulate inside her. On the other hand, the Church is suspicious of this newfangled invention, and this being the time of the Inquisition, Auda has to tread very carefully...Fans of historical fiction, lovers of books and papermaking, students of religion, admirers of the Middle Ages will particularly like the book, though by all means even those who don't belong to any of these categories should give it a read.