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The Corner That Held Them is a story of many small lives lived both with small hopes and grand dreams. And perhaps preeminently it is a story of the running and maintaining of an unimportant convent in 14th century England – an “out-of-the-way place” where the first prioress says “anything or nothing” might happen.

It is the story of the convent of Oby. 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. The Corner That Held Them is a story of many small lives lived both with small hopes and grand dreams. It is the story of the convent of Oby.

A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. It was founded in the 12th century by a man 10 years after he discovers his wife in bed with her lover and righteously slaughters the lover.

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