The Book of Eve is a dark and twisting tale about a beguiling book, inspired by the Voynich manuscript, which has the power to transform the lives of women.
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Beatrice is the convent's librarian, who for years has shunned the company of her sisters, finding solace with her manuscripts.
Then one night two women, bleeding and stricken, are abandoned outside the convent walls. Moments from death, one of them presses something into Beatrice's hands: a bewitching book whose pages have a dangerous life of their own.
Men of the faith want the book destroyed and a zealous preacher has tracked it to her door.
Beatrice must decide: her sisters' lives or her obsession.
The book's voice grows stronger and an ancient power uncoils.
Will Beatrice dare to listen?
This is the third novel from Meg Clothier, who studied Classics at Cambridge and worked as a journalist in London and Moscow before moving to Somerset in the south-west of England.
The Book of Eve (Wildfire) RRP $22.99.
