Knowledge of Angels

- Authors
- Walsh, Jill Paton
- Publisher
- Transworld Digital
- Tags
- fantasy , religion , philosophy
- ISBN
- 9781446423042
- Date
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.28 MB
- Lang
- en
It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment.
But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...