Dimensions
155 x 236 x 31mm
It's 1372, the French village of Villeneuve is under siege and people are starving. Bonne Mirabilis, wet nurse to the wealthiest and most enigmatic woman in town, realises that she alone has the bounty with which to feed the hungry.
Bonne, known locally as "God's bastard", has long been shunned by the townspeople - when she was a child her sainted mother and her followers were locked in the local church and set afire. Now, in a defiant act of generosity, Bonne allows the villagers to share her good fortune. (And not by convincing her patroness to open her warehouses.)
With the troop of ascetics, mystics, lovers and jesters who keep her milk flowing, Bonne is on her way to sainthood in this masterly, visceral tale of fourteenth century life which combines the wondrous and the outrageous.
