| International Standard Book Number |
9798331711375
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| Personal Name |
Edwards, Janet Rich, author.
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| Title Statement |
Canticle playaway : a novel / Janet Rich Edwards.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
1 audio media player (13 hr., 26 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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| General Note |
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
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| General Note |
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
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| General Note |
Previously released by Spiegel & Grau by OrangeSky Audio.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Read by Lucy Rayner.
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| Type of Computer File or Data Note |
Sound files.
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| Summary, Etc. |
A masterful debut novel following a spirited young woman's explorations of faith, agency, and love in thirteenth-century Bruges. Aleys is sixteen years old and unusual: stubborn, bright, and prone to religious visions. She and her only friend, Finn, a young scholar, have been learning Latin together in secret--but just as she thinks their connection might become something more, everything unravels. When her father promises her in marriage to a merchant she doesn't love, she runs away from home, finding shelter among the beguines, a fiercely independent community of religious women who refuse to answer to the Church. Among these hardworking and strong-willed women, Aleys glimpses for the first time the joys of belonging: a life of song, meaning, and friendship in the markets and along the canals of Bruges. But forces both mystical and political are at work. Illegal translations of scripture, the women's independence, and a sudden rash of miracles all draw the attention of an ambitious bishop--and bring Aleys and those around her into ever-increasing danger, a danger that will push Aleys to a new understanding of love and sacrifice. Grounded in the little-told stories of medieval women--mystics, saints, anchoresses, and beguines--and introducing a major new talent, Canticle is a luminous work of historical fiction, vividly evoking a world on the verge of transformation.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Teenage girls Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women and religion Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Bruges (Belgium) History To 1500 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Playaway (Brand name)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Rayner, Lucy, narrator.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Spotify (Firm)
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