Synopses & Reviews
Review
“Intriguing…Janet Lewis combines scrupulous research and exquisite craftsmanship to create stories of timeless human drama…must rank among the finest historical fiction in English.”
— Tim Gioe, WDCB FM Radio, Chicago
Review
A harmonious retelling of a seventeenth-century legend concerning a saintly pastor, his cherished daughter, and the villain who betrayed them…Miss Lewis’s artfully simple prose achieves the effect of an ancient, lovingly illuminated missal.”
— The New Yorker
Review
“Lewis has retold a true legend of Denmark in unadorned, free, and exciting prose. Here is a gruesomely fascinating story of such circumstantial evidence as to make the reader want to cry out in protest.”
— Saturday Review of Literature
Review
“Some of the twentieth century’s most vividly imagined and finely wrought literature.”
— The New York Times
About the Author
Janet Lewis wrote many books of poetry and historical fiction. She was married to the poet and critic Yvor Winters. Lewis died in 1998 at the age of 99.