# The Corner That Held Them

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- Book: [The Corner That Held Them](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/the-corner-that-held-them) ([The Corner That Held Them.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner/the-corner-that-held-them.md))
- Authors: [Sylvia Townsend Warner](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvia-townsend-warner)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 14 h 38 min
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- ISBN: 978-02-4152-480-0
- Published: 2021-04-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 14 h 38 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women. 'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah Waters 'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement 'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph © Sylvia Townsend Warner 1948 (P) Penguin Audio 2021