ABANDONED. Fictional retelling of Joan of Arc

[Natalie]

This was a YA retelling of Joan of Arc and I don't remember much about it other than in one of the first chapters she's scratching on the table (or something) and her nails/fingers start to bleed, and I was always grossed out by that. I believe it was published in the early 2000s.

I think (again, I'm not sure) it had a cover of like a landscape with the girl in the middle.

[Kate]

Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Nancy Garden?

[Danielle]

Young Joan ?

[Natalie]

It's neither of those, thanks.

[Natalie]

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[Kate]

Pauline Chandler

[Natalie]

I'm not sure...do you remember any details about the book that could help me? :)

[Kate]

The story of Joan of Arc is told through the eyes of her cousin, Mariane. Mariane doesn't speak since her mother died (killed by English raiders). Mariane finds the truth behind her mother's death. Some of the story is told through letters, as Mariane is not always with Joan.

[Melanie]

Well, if you're Dutch (can't tell because of private profile, so sorry if you're not and this is entirely unhelpful xD...) it could be Jehanne?

[Natalie]

I am actually part-Dutch, but it was an English book so that's not it. Thanks though!

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Natalie, are you still looking for this book?

[Rainbowheart]

I know this is abandoned, but I'm pretty sure it is indeed Warrior Girl.

There's this passage about her bleeding fingers....

I was making everyone sick with my screams, the wordless noise that said I want my mother! I want my mother! They were all pleading with me to stop, but I couldn’t help myself. Like a hog driven to slaughter, I bit and kicked and scratched. I stuck my foot in the door of my mother’s room as they tried to push me away, dug my nails into the wood of the jambs until the ends of my fingers bled, all the time making animal grunts, my eyes forever fixed on the smudge of blood, that wrongness, at the side of my mother’s mouth.