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A Woman’s Lot
🎧 Audiobook 🎧
Meonbridge Chronicles, Book 2
by Carolyn Hughes
February 24th - 26th, 2025
Publication Date: November 12th, 2018
Publisher: Riverdown Books
Pages: 342
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publication Date: January 30th, 2025 (audiobook)
Audiobook Publisher: Carolyn Hughes
Listening Time: 12 hrs 15 mins
Narrator: Alex Lee
How can mere women resist the misogyny of men?
1352. In Meonbridge, a resentful peasant rages against Eleanor Titherige’s efforts to build up her flock of sheep. Susanna Miller’s husband, grown melancholy and ill-tempered, succumbs to idle gossip that his wife’s a scold. Agnes Sawyer’s yearning to be a craftsman is met with scorn. And the village priest, fearful of what he considers women’s “unnatural” ambitions, is determined to keep them firmly in their place.
Many men hold fast to the teachings of the Church and fear the havoc the “daughters of Eve” might wreak if they’re allowed to usurp men’s roles and gain control over their own lives.
Not all men in Meonbridge resist the women’s desire for change – indeed, they want it for themselves. Yet it takes only one or two misogynists to unleash the hounds of hostility and hatred…
If you enjoy immersive historical fiction with a strong authentic feel, set in a time of change and challenge, especially for women, you’ll love A Woman’s Lot, the second MEONBRIDGE CHRONICLE. Find out for yourself if Meonbridge’s “unnatural” women stand up to their abusers!
Praise for A Woman’s Lot:
“This book exceeded all my expectations. I did not read this story. I lived it!”
~ Mary Anne Yarde, The Coffee Pot Book Club
“A treat for all the senses…totally true to its time and setting…”
~ Being Anne
“I didn’t so much feel as if I were reading about medieval England as experiencing it first hand.”
~ Linda’s Book Bag
“An absorbing account of the times.”
~ Historical Novel Society
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Carolyn Hughes
Carolyn Hughes has lived much of her life in Hampshire. With a first degree in Classics and English, she started working life as a computer programmer, then a very new profession. But it was technical authoring that later proved her vocation, word-smithing for many different clients, including banks, an international hotel group and medical instruments manufacturers.
Although she wrote creatively on and off for most of her adult life, it was not until her children flew the nest that writing historical fiction took centre stage. But why historical fiction? Serendipity!
Seeking inspiration for what to write for her Creative Writing Masters, she discovered the handwritten draft, begun in her twenties, of a novel, set in 14th century rural England… Intrigued by the period and setting, she realised that, by writing a novel set in the period, she could learn more about the medieval past and interpret it, which seemed like a thrilling thing to do. A few days later, the first Meonbridge Chronicle, Fortune’s Wheel, was under way.
Six published books later (with more to come), Carolyn does now think of herself as an Historical Novelist. And she wouldn’t have it any other way…
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