The Cloistered Lady, Coirle Mooney
The Cloistered Lady, Coirle Mooney
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The Cloistered Lady

Author: Coirle Mooney

Narrator: Deborah Balm

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/22/2023


Synopsis

Joanna and Alice are forced from dazzling court life to bleak confinement . . . 1173, France

Eleanor of Aquitaine has been arrested for rebelling against her husband, King Henry II of England. Her loyal ladies-in-waiting, Alice and Joanna of Agen have fled to the nunnery at Fontrevault, where they are anxiously awaiting news of their queen.

Alice and Joanna struggle to adapt to their cramped new home at the Abbey. Each is secretly nursing a broken heart—and harboring unholy desires.

Joanna left behind a lover, Jean, at Eleanor's court in Poitiers, and Alice has long been in love with the queen's daughter, Marie.

And as the days stretch on with no news, they both begin to fear the worst.

What has happened to Eleanor? Will Alice and Joanna be forced to remain at the Abbey indefinitely?

And will they ever be reunited with the ones they love?

About Coirle Mooney

Coirle Mooney grew up in the Burren perfumery, Ireland, in a house full of fragrant books and now lives in Kinvara, County Galway. After completing her MA and PhD in medieval and renaissance literature in University College Cork, she began working on what would become her debut novel, The Lady's Keeper, set in the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Her next two books are also set in medieval France and she is working on a series of novels based on seventeenth-century London playwrights.

She has always read widely and wrote her first murder mystery, Donald Duck is Dead, aged ten. She read Donald in instalments to her captivated (or captured) classmates. She has worked as a Shakespeare and English teacher and as an old and middle English tutor. Her focus is on storytelling and creating characters with emotional depth.


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