The Corner That Held Them
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  • Published: 28 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241454817
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $22.99

The Corner That Held Them

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28 Jan 2021
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26 Nov 2020
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15 Apr 2021
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A masterpiece of historical fiction, The Corner That Held Them depicts the lives of medieval nuns amid the turmoil of rebellion and the Black Death

Sylvia Townsend Warner's portrayal of a fourteenth-entury nunnery is widely considered to be one of the greatest historical novels of all time. An often hilarious ode to community living, it is also a poignant, delicate exploration of spirituality's relationship to the material world.
  • Published: 28 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241454817
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $22.99
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Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Praise for The Corner That Held Them

A spellbinding piece of historical fiction-spare, luminous. . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page

The Sunday Times

A magnificent recreation of the life of a medieval convent

The Daily Telegraph

A classic, whose resonance deepens inside the reader in proportion to its austere, luminous discretion. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy. As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals

The Times Literary Supplement