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Sarah Dunant talks to Helena Kennedy

Sacred Hearts

Hay Festival 2010, Sunday 6 June 2010

In Renaissance Ferrara the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, howling with rage and hormones and determined to escape.