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‘We’ve forbidden her to speak. We’ve stuffed her mouth with tow. We’ve shaved off her hair, once or twice. We’ve even locked her in that chest over there. And she remains incorrigible. She’s eaten up with sin, Holy Father, I don’t know what to do with her any more.’
At sixteen, Babylonne is desperate. She’s been starved and beaten, she’s endured six bloody sieges, and now her aunt wants her to marry a crazy old man who thinks he’s a giant olive.
Can she trust the mysterious priest who’s been spying on her, claiming to be a friend of her father’s? Or would it be better to fight – and perhaps die – in the long, vicious war with the French?