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Anchoress of Shere (2002)

af Paul L. Moorcraft

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"This engrossing, subtle historical centers on a spiritual quest into Christian mysticism and smoothly alternates between past and present."â??Publishers Weekly STARRED review

Set in two different centuries, Anchoress of Shere depicts the story of a beautiful young woman, Christine Carpenter, who chooses to be walled up alive in a church in the English town of Shere. The historical records, which still exist, put the date at 1329.

The 20th century chronicler of her story is Father Michael Duval, a deranged Catholic priest. Gradually, two separate sagas unfold: the bizarre world of the Middle Ages centered on Christine's entombment, and the 1967 abduction of Marda Stewart in nearby Guildford. Soon the medieval world of knights, debauchery, peasant uprisings and civil war merges into a modern hunt for a serial killer. The final piece of the puzzle is discovered in the late 1990s, revealing a gripping adventure story of love so obsessive that it spans more than six hundred years.… (mere)

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Read from November 08 to 12, 2013



This is dedicated to Tim for providing
an anchorhold in Shere
where I could write this book.



hah! we used to take Uncle Jimmy's A40 that had the spring out indicators lol It broke down everywhere, but never on a cream tea afternoon to Shere.

What a disturbing book, and certainly not for the squeamish. The back story of Christine is an anal rape as an act of droit du seigneur and her decision to be walled up away from humankind.

The 1960s tale is of an errant priest writing about the historical Christine, and his succession of abductions and murders in trying to replace an anchoress in the walls.

Bizarre

Although there are similar tales of abduction out there I think this one is the battiest I've read so far. ( )
  mimal | Jan 1, 2014 |
Very bizarre book. But okay.

In a very small town in England named Shere, a priest has embarked on a mission to chronicle the life of an actual historical figure, Christine Carpenter, known as the Anchoress of Shere. The catch is, that in his version of the story, he makes up a fictional life for her, one of pain and suffering before she "entombs" herself in a small cell adjoining a church where she is never to venture forth into the world again, in order to seek redemption and to become more Christ-like. All of that is well and good, whatever, poetic license is not a crime. But, he finds that without a real-life Christine figure, he has writer's block and cannot proceed with his manuscript. So he chooses a young woman living in the town who is seemingly all alone, alienated from her family, as his next Christine. I say next, because as Marda (his victim) finds out, she has not been the first...

An intriguing story, and I think it could have been a lot better had it been a lot more in-depth. Granted, by the time you finish reading the story you are well aware of the priest's delusional mind; but everyone else, including the victim, seems to be very cardboard-ish.

I liked it; it is a good piece for mystery fans who like stories about obsession leading to heinous crime. ( )
  bcquinnsmom | Jan 18, 2009 |
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

"This engrossing, subtle historical centers on a spiritual quest into Christian mysticism and smoothly alternates between past and present."â??Publishers Weekly STARRED review

Set in two different centuries, Anchoress of Shere depicts the story of a beautiful young woman, Christine Carpenter, who chooses to be walled up alive in a church in the English town of Shere. The historical records, which still exist, put the date at 1329.

The 20th century chronicler of her story is Father Michael Duval, a deranged Catholic priest. Gradually, two separate sagas unfold: the bizarre world of the Middle Ages centered on Christine's entombment, and the 1967 abduction of Marda Stewart in nearby Guildford. Soon the medieval world of knights, debauchery, peasant uprisings and civil war merges into a modern hunt for a serial killer. The final piece of the puzzle is discovered in the late 1990s, revealing a gripping adventure story of love so obsessive that it spans more than six hundred years.

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