A Vision of Light (65 page)

18. Why does the Voice command Margaret to stay and write her book? What wider purpose, if any, do you think it will serve? Is the book itself the point or a means to an end, a way to bring her together with Brother Gregory?

Copyright © 1989 by Judith Merkle Riley

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press,
an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Three Rivers Press and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1989.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Riley, Judith Merkle.

A vision of light: a Margaret of Ashbury novel / Judith Merkle Riley.

p. cm.

1. Great Britain—History—Edward III, 1327–1377—Fiction. 2. Autoibiography—Authorship—Fiction. 3. Trials (Witchcraft)—Fiction. 4. Women healers—Fiction. 5. Women mystics—Fiction. 6. Scribes—Fiction. 7. Forceps—Fiction. 8. Widows—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.I3794V5   2006

813'54—dc22       2005023341

eISBN-13: 978-0-307-34708-4

eISBN-10: 0-307-34708-7

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