Sharratt captures both the pain and the beauty such gifts bring, as well as bringing to life a time of vast sins and vast redemptions." The grace of her writing and the grace of her subject combine seamlessly in this wonderful novel about the amazing, too-little-known saint, Hildegard of Bingen, a mystic and visionary. Sharon Kay Penman, author of the New York Times bestseller Time and Chance She brings one of the most famous and enigmatic women of the Middle Ages to vibrant life in this tour de force, which will captivate the reader from the very first page." "I loved Mary Sharratt’s The Daughters of Witching Hill, but she has outdone herself with Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard Von Bingen. Margaret George, author of Mary, Called Magdalene Mary Sharratt has undertaken this with sensitivity and grace." It is easy to paint a picture of a saint from the outside but much more difficult to show them from the inside. "An enchanting beginning to the story of the perennially fascinating 12th-century mystic, Hildegard of Bingen.
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