Braided medieval and modern stories of an anchoress her handmaiden and the adjunct professor searching for themampamp160across centuries as they each navigate ambition confinement and the patriarchy.The modern and medieval stories spiral in and out of each other intricate and vivid as the letters of illuminated manuscripts connected by the mysteries of paradox confinement and freedom loss and fulfillment.ampamp160Elizabeth Cunningham My Life as a Prayerampamp160and The Maeve Chroniclesampamp160ampamp8220HoltBrowning is adept at honing in on the passion for life nature and language that can sustain a person through the hardest times.ampamp8221ampamp160ampamp8212Nerissa Nieldsampamp160Plastic Angelampamp160and All Together Singing in the KitchenTwelveyearold Elinor is enclosed with an anchoress Lady Adela in a cell at Wenlock Abbey 14thampamp160century England. Centuries later an adjunct professor of medieval studies discovers Elinors longlost book of hours on a research trip to England. HoltBrowningampamp160explores womenampamp8217s timeless struggle for personal agency as her unforgettable characters discover the burdens and rewards of faith and devotion.