A Tale of Two Maidens: A Novel

Felise, a 15-year-old apprentice scribe in medieval France, is in a desperate situation and must escape from her cruel guardian to become a writer and book shop owner. Joan of Arc's courage inspires her to run away, but she encounters a young man from home who pursues her. When she meets Joan face to face, she is torn between her heroine's sense of purpose and her own desire for love and personal fulfillment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 19 September 2023
Publisher: She Writes Press

Fifteen-year-old Felise, an apprentice scribe in medieval France, is in a desperate situation. She yearns to find a way to become a writer and a book shop owner, but in order to achieve her dreams, she must first escape from her cruel guardian, who is plotting an arranged marriage for her. As the Hundred Years' War rages all around Felise, Joan of Arc blazes into history, claiming God-given powers to set France free from English control. Her courage inspires Felise to run away, but every day of the journey that follows draws the young scribe further into the underbelly of a world she has never known - a world of burning villages and terrified peasants left behind in the path of war. She soon encounters a young man from home who begins to pursue her, and she is drawn to him despite her quest for freedom and distrust of men. But following after the army, she meets Joan face to face, and finds herself torn between her heroine's single-minded sense of purpose and her own desire for love and personal fulfillment. A Tale of Two Maidens brings to life the story of an ordinary medieval girl on an extraordinary adventure - one that will require her to dig within herself to claim her own true, independent, and heroic destiny.

Weight: 400g
Dimension: 140 x 217 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647425432