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The scene is London in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth centuryand there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne yet strangesigns and portents are troubling the latter part of his reign. By the side ofthe River Fleet in Clerkenwell the people are restless disenchanted with thechurch and their King. The streets of London are rife with rumour heresyespionage and murder and at the centre of the confusion is the nun SisterClarice who has been vouchsafed visions of the future. Is she a genuineprophet or the tool of earthly powers? This is a story of adventure andsuspense set in the late medieval world. As in many of Peter Ackroyds novelsthe distant past is no longer a foreign country but something alarmingly closeand authentic. As one critic has put it he is our ages greatest Londonimagination. «
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