The Corner That Held Them

A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s  The Corner That Held Them  is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their c