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Matrix

A Novel
Pages
272
Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Marie de France is exiled from the royal court and sent to England to lead a struggling abbey. Faced with starvation and disease among her nuns, she must find her own strength and purpose. As she navigates this new life, Marie discovers her own divine visions and a fierce devotion to the women she protects, forging a new path in a changing world.

About the author

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Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is the author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, Delicate Edible Birds, a collection of stories, and Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award. Her third novel, Fates and Furies, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kirkus Award. It won the 2015 American Booksellers’ Association Ind...

Characters

Marie de FranceProtagonist
Queen Eleanor of AquitaineSupporting
All characters in Matrix
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