# The Leper's Companions

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- Book: [The Leper's Companions](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-blackburn/the-lepers-companions) ([The Leper's Companions.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-blackburn/the-lepers-companions.md))
- Authors: [Julia Blackburn](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-blackburn)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9927-276-2
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2000-05-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

To escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. In a village by the sea she watches the lives of the inhabitants unfold around her. But the year is now 1410 and this is a world of devils and miracles, a world in which there are no clear boundaries between reality and the power of the imagination. A man's discovery of a mermaid washed up on the sand starts a chain of events that leads three of the villagers to accompany the enigmatic figure of the leper on a pilgrimmage to the Holy Land. The woman joins them and sets out without the certainty of ever coming home again. The Leper's Companions was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.