NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
2021 'Lush, gripping and ferocious, MATRIX is animated with sensual
detail on every page' MADELINE MILLER 'An audacious piece of
storytelling, full of passion, wisdom and magic' SARAH WATERS
'MATRIX is a gorgeous, sensual, addictive read' SARA COLLINS
__________________________________ Seventeen-year-old Marie, too
wild for courtly life, is thrown to the dogs one winter morning,
expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey.
Marie is strange - tall, a giantess, her elbows and knees stick
out, ungainly. At first taken aback by life at the abbey, Marie
finds purpose and passion among her mercurial sisters. Yet she
deeply misses her secret lover Cecily and queen Eleanor. Born last
in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, women who flew
across the countryside with their sword fighting and dagger work,
Marie decides to chart a bold new course for the women she now
leads and protects. She will bring herself, and her sisters, out of
the darkness, into riches and power. MATRIX is a bold vision of
female love, devotion and desire from one of the most adventurous
writers at work today. __________________________________ 'A
thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that
will blow readers' minds. Left me gasping.' EMMA DONOGHUE 'Both
epic and intimate, this sweeping novel explores questions of female
ambition, creativity and passion with electrifying prose and
sparkling wit. A propulsive, captivating read' BRIT BENNETT
'Visionary leader, queer lover, 12th-century writer ... the life of
Marie de France is triumphantly reimagined in an assertively modern
novel about female ambition and creativity... a highly distinctive
novel of great vigour and boldness. From mystical visions that may
or may not be divine, to the earthy business of abbey pigs,
diseases and account books, Groff does it all with purpose and
panache' Guardian
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