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The Corner That Held Them
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  • Published: 28 January 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241454817
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $28.00

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: $28.00
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About the author

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). With her partner Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include Mr Fortune's Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them and The Flint Anchor.
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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