Publisher's Synopsis
Germany 1505 It is very shameful that children, especially defenceless young girls, are pushed into the nunneries. Shame on the unmerciful parents who treat their own so cruelly.' Martin Luther Following the death of her mother and her father's remarriage, five-year-old Katharina is placed in the convent at Brehna. She will never see her father again. Sixty-five miles away, at Erfurt in Thuringia, Martin Luder, a promising young law student, turns his back on a lucrative career in order to become a monk. The consequences of their meeting on Easter Sunday 1523, will reverberate down the centuries throughout the Christian world. A compelling portrayal of Katharina von Bora, amidst the turmoil of the Peasant's War, the German Reformation and the controversial priest at its heart.
