The Interview Online specialises in providing "high quality audio, and occasionally video, interviews with authors, playwrights and cultural movers and shakers." This month, they've been talking to Virago author Sarah Dunant about her new novel, Sacred Hearts.
From the introduction to the interview: "Sarah Dunant's third novel in her Renaissance trilogy is set in a convent in 16th Century Italy. As she tells Nicola Barranger, Sacred Hearts is a account of convent life at a time when up to 50% of Italian noblewomen were forced to enter a convent, living and praying for the rest of their lives with in an enclosed and highly disciplined community of women.
"Sacred Hearts tells how the well-ordered routine is completely disrupted when a 15 year old enters the convent against her will and threatens to destroy the disciplined female society.
"For The Interview Online, Sarah outlines details of a 16th convent community, how music was integral to the nuns' lives and how modern day post-feminist anger made this a hard novel to write."
Visit www.theinterviewonline.co.uk to listen to the full audio interview.
Posted 19/06/2009 11:48:04 by Darren Turpin with 0 comments.
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