{"id":610,"date":"2015-10-05T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/?p=610"},"modified":"2015-10-05T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:34:08","slug":"a-vision-of-light-by-judith-merkle-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/2015\/10\/05\/a-vision-of-light-by-judith-merkle-riley\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Vision of Light<\/em> was a suggestion for me from BookBub today.\u00a0 This is one of my all-time favorite historical fiction novels.\u00a0 I highly recommend it if you can get hold of a copy!<\/p>\n

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\nMargaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret\u2019s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Married off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Union\u2014a Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different\u2014to her tradition-bound parents, to the bishop\u2019s court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Vision of Light was a suggestion for me from BookBub today.\u00a0 This is one of my all-time favorite historical fiction novels.\u00a0 I highly recommend it if you can get hold of a copy! Here is a description from Goodreads: Continue reading A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/cpls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}