Author: J. A. McLachlan
Year: 2017
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Genres/categories:
Historical fiction
Culture: France
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9780993630675
0993630677 |
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During the middle ages, a peasant's superstition held that a mother mourning the death of her child could "sell her sorrow" by selling a nail from her child's coffin to a peddler.
Would you pay someone to bear your sorrow?
Lady Celeste is overwhelmed with grief when her infant son dies. Desperate to find relief, she begs a passing peddler to buy her sorrow. Jean, the cynical peddler she meets, is nobody's fool; he does not believe in superstitions and insists Celeste include the valuable ruby ring on her finger along with the nail in return for his coin.
Jean and Celeste both find themselves changed by their transaction in ways neither of them anticipated. Jean finds that bearing another's sorrow opens him to strange fits of compassion, a trait he can ill afford. Meanwhile Celeste learns that without her wedding ring her husband may set her aside, leaving her ruined. She determines to retrieve it before he finds out-without reclaiming her sorrow. But how will she find the peddler and convince him to give up the precious ruby ring?
If you like realistic medieval fiction with evocative prose, compelling characters and a unique story, you'll love this incredible, introspective journey into the south of France in the 12th Century, based on an actual medieval belief.
Winner of the Royal Palm Literary Award for Historical Fiction.
"J. A. McLachlan is a terrific writer -- wry and witty, with a keen eye for detail."
~ author Robert J. Sawyer
"Strong, character-driven fiction -- McLachlan makes you both care and think. You can't ask for more." ~ author Tanya Huff
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