Victoria Glendinning: The Butcher's Daughter [2019] paperback Condition:Good A young man discovers a

A young man discovers a family secret that turns his world upside down in this dark

who seeks to possess the Tear for his own ends

then they have to learn how to chant its spells

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Victoria Glendinning: The Butcher's Daughter [2019] paperback Condition:Good A young man discovers a'Historical fiction at its finest.' @MargaretAtwood It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West country butcher, has been banished, leaving her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of Shaftesbury Abbey. While Agnes grapples with the complex rules and hierarchies of the sisterhood, King Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Head of the Church of England. Religious houses are being formally subjugated,