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Sister Rosa’s Rebellion
Meonbridge Chronicles, Book 6
by Carolyn Hughes
Thursdays, April 24th - May 15th, 2025
Publication Date: April 4th, 2025 (tbc)
Publisher: Riverdown Books
Pages: 342
Genre: Historical Fiction
1363. When Mother Angelica, the old prioress at Northwick Priory, dies, many of the nuns think Sister Rosa – formerly Johanna de Bohun, of Meonbridge – should take her place. But Sister Evangelina, Angelica’s niece, believes the position is hers by right, and one way or another she will ensure it is. Rosa stands aside to let Evangelina win, but is devastated when she sees how the new prioress is changing Northwick: from a place of humility and peace to one of extravagance and entertainment, if only for the prioress and her favoured few.
Rosa is horrified to see such sacrilegious changes, but dreads too that Northwick will go to wrack and ruin under Evangelina’s profligate and greedy rule. Yet Rosa’s vows of obedience mean she cannot rebel.
In Meonbridge, John atte Wode, the bailiff, is also distraught by what is happening at Northwick. For years, he visited the priory to advise prioress Angelica, and Sister Rosa, on the management of their estates. But Evangelina dismissed him, declaring his advice no longer necessary. Worse, she barred him from visiting Northwick again.
Yet, only months ago, he had met Anabella, a widow who fled to Northwick to escape her in-laws’ demands and threats, but is a somewhat reluctant novice nun. The attraction between John and Anabella was immediate and he had hoped to persuade her to give up the priory and become his wife. But how can he possibly do that now?
Can John rescue his beloved Anabella from a future he is certain she no longer wants? And can Rosa overcome her misgivings and rebel against Evangelina’s hateful regime, and return Northwick to the haven it once was?
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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.
Seven 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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