This has been my most engrossing, challenging, and heart-rending project to date. It's a historical drama and romance, and I'm thrilled (and a little nervous!) to share it with the world. Set in medieval France, it tells the story of Dolssa, a mystic girl whose tales of her visions earn her a sentence of execution for the crime of heresy. When she manages to escape her burning and flee across southern France as a fugitive from the friar obsessed with finding her, she encounters Botille, a peasant girl whose desire to help a poor stranger brings peril down upon her entire village and family.
I'll be posting more about the book and my travel schedule soon. Meanwhile, anyone interested can add it to their Goodreads to-read shelf, pre-order it from their favorite bookseller, or request it from their local library.
Enjoy!
Here's the copy available online:
I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it.
Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all.
Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift. Branded a heretic, she’s on the run from the friar who condemned her mother to death by fire, and wants Dolssa executed, too.
Botille is a matchmaker and a tavern-keeper, struggling to keep herself and her sisters on the right side of the law in their seaside town of Bajas.
When their lives collide by a dark riverside, Botille rescues a dying Dolssa and conceals her in the tavern, where an unlikely friendship blooms. Aided by her sisters and Symo, her surly but loyal neighbor, Botille nurses Dolssa back to health and hides her from her pursuers. But all of Botille’s tricks, tales, and cleverness can’t protect them forever, and when the full wrath of the Church bears down upon Bajas, Dolssa’s passion and Botille’s good intentions could destroy the entire village.
From the author of the award-winning All the Truth That's in Me comes a spellbinding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page and make you wonder if miracles really are possible.
ISBN: 0451469925
Thanks for visiting my blog. I am always awestruck when authors visit and comment on my reviews. As you could tell from the review I love your book, The Passion of Dolssa. It has remained at the top of the pile of YA books I am reading on my hunt to find the best of of the best YA lit for 2016. So far I have read 25 books which could be considered for the Printz Award and I will be shocked if Dolssa doesn't win something. I am keeping my fingers crossed for you. Thank you again for your wonderful book! -Anne@Head Full of Books
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