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The fire and the rose, Robyn Cadwallader ; read by Meg McKibbin

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The fire and the rose

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Robyn Cadwallader ; read by Meg McKibbin

England, 1276. Forced to leave her home village, Eleanor moves to Lincoln to work as a housemaid. She's prickly, independent and curious, her prospects blighted by a port-wine birthmark across her face. Unusually for a woman, she has fine skills with ink and quill, and harbours a secret ambition to work as a scribe, a profession closed to women. Eleanor discovers that Lincoln is a dangerous place, divided by religious prejudice, the Jews frequently the focus of violence and forced to wear a yellow badge. She falls in love with Asher, a Jewish spicer, who shares her love of books and words, but their relationship is forbidden by law. When Eleanor is pulled into the dark depths of the church's machinations against Jews and the king issues an edict expelling all Jews from England, Eleanor and Asher are faced with an impossible choice

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