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With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly under the surface of rustic village life. In Holy Fools, her most ambitious and accomplished novel at this point, she transports us back again to a period of intrigue and turmoil, of deception and masquerade.In the entire year 1605, a widow, pregnant and alone, seeks sanctuary at the tiny Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer on the island of Noirs Moustiers off of the Brittany coast. After the birth of her daughter, she takes up the veil, and a fresh name, Soeur Auguste. However the peace she has within re-mote isolation is shattered five years later by the events that follow the death of her kind benefactress, the Reverend Mother.Whenever a new abbess -- the daughter of the corrupt noble family elevated by the murder of King Henri IV -- arrives at Sainte Marie-de-la-mer, she does not arrive alone. With her is her personal confessor and spiritual guide, Père Colombin, a man Soeur Auguste knows all too well. For the newcomer is Guy LeMerle, a charlatan and seducer now masquerading as a priest, and the one man she fears more than any.Soeur Auguste has a secret. Once she was l'Ailée, "The Winged One," star performer of the troupe led by LeMerle, before betrayal forced her to change her identity. However now days gone by has found her. Before long, thanks to LeMerle, suspicion and debauchery are breeding such as a plague within the convent's walls -- fueled by dark rumors of witchcraft, area of the false priest's brilliantly orchestrated scheme of revenge. To safeguard herself and her beloved child, l'Ailée will have to perform one last act of dazzling daring more audacious than any she has previously attempted.
