![]() ![]() How did you land on this particular setting and where did the idea first come to you? Your first novel since Fates and Furies takes a dramatic shift from your usual contemporary settings. ![]() In an exclusive, Groff reveals the cover for her new novel and dissects how writing about the past always reveals something about the present, too. But her nation and era cannot make sense of a woman like her, and that shortness of vision could eclipse her dreams before she has the chance to nurture them. At first shocked by her new life but soon humbled by it, Marie finds purpose and spiritual fervor in this all-female enclave and commits herself to blazing a new trail for her devoted sisters. Matrix is set in the 12th century and follows real-life poet Marie de France, a 17-year-old cast out of the French royal court and sent to England to be the new prioress of an ailing abbey filled with sick and starving nuns. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |