The Book of Eve set in Florence – Meg Clothier

Submitted: 24th February 2023

A story about a secret book. One that a nun is given by a dying woman in her final moments. She knows there is something very dangerous about this book. The woman was brought to the convent after an accident and she seems very determined to find out what the dying woman was trying to tell her.

However, that will lead the nun into all kinds of dangers that she could never have imagined.

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Boarding Pass Information: Florence

Author guide: Meg Clothier

Genre: historical, gothic

Food and drink to accompany: anything the nuns offer you.

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This novel is chillingly good. It’s inspired by The Voynich Manuscript- the world’s most mysterious book. Written in an secret/unknown script by an unknown author. One so secret it has been written in a language or code that no one can decipher. Now that made my ears prick up straight away. This is so right up my street!

Beatrice was my favurite character from the start. She finds the book you see and is the librarian of a convent. I felt her worry and curiosity from the start as she tried to find out more about the mystery book. The author evokes her innermost thoughts and these chapters felt very claustrophobic and gripping. We learn of her life before in snippets and these were very moving. How all of these women living in the convent must have lived before. Such a lonely and claustrophobic existence now. One that shows just how they have to live, away from the influence of men on the outside.

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This novel is slow moving but that’s as it should be. The author builds the world very carefully and introduces the power of that mysterious book slowly but surely. Ooh the tension is delicious! Tinged with danger and a power that, once let loose, will change everything these women know. I was scared for them and half wanted to run to that convent and try and help.

The whispers of this book do reach ears of those who could bring grave problems to the convent and those within. The book ramped up the tension at this point and the full picture of the closed convent, the Renaissance world, and the power of the written word came to a wonderful crescendo.

Meg Clothier – take a bow!