A Flight of Saints

What kind of a friend are you? ** IPPY AWARD WINNER 2025 FOR BEST RELIGIOUS FICTION!** Are you a good friend? A jealous friend? Or perhaps you have a jealous friend, or a friend you wouldn’t trust with a secret. Friendship, the complex, messy kind, is the beating heart of A Flight of Saints, the debut novel by Elizabeth Braithwaite. The year is 1179, and young Sister Lucia narrates how she and four other novices escape the abuse and enforced silence of St. Agatha's Convent in northern Italy, and flee across the Alps into Germania with the hope of being admitted to the convent of their idol Hildegard of Bingen. But abuse has left its mark on the girls, and soon Lucia despairs of ever reaching Bingen let alone getting her unruly tribe inside its doors. After all, what convent would admit a thief, a murderer, a sex-obsessive, or a stigmata fraud? In the meantime, she hasn’t been entirely honest about knowing the way to Bingen, or how they will eat, or how the will evade bounty hunters sent to capture and return them to St. Agatha's. Let the bickering begin. When the girls rescue a Templar trapped in a cave, he vows to deliver them safely to Bingen. But a knight’s promise of protection has its limits. As the terrors of the journey mount, everyone gets blood on their hands. Then things get worse. A Flight of Saints pays homage to the medieval quest story. Darkly comic, quirky, and at times violent, it confronts questions of faith, unlikely friendships, and buried trauma. It will appeal to fans of The Derry Girls and The Sisters Brothers.
ASIN: B0F1463MZV
VSKU: BVV.B0F1463MZV.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Braithwaite, Elizabeth
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use