Win Mum a copy of The Fire and the Rose, by Robyn Cadwallader this Mother's Day!

https://www.theaustralianplus.com.au/competitions/apr-may23-win-a-copy-of-the-fire-and-the-rose/

Members of The Australian Plus, spoil Mum this Mother's Day with the chance to win 1 of 15 copies of The Fire and the Rose, by Robyn Cadwallader.

From Robyn Cadwallader, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Anchoress and Book of Colours, comes a vibrant, richly imagined and deeply moving novel set in the turbulent world of thirteenth-century England.

England, 1276: Forced to leave her home village, Eleanor moves to Lincoln to work as a housemaid. She's xxxly, independent and stubborn, her prospects blighted by a port-wine birthmark across her face. Unusually for a woman, she has fine skills with ink and quill, and harbours a secret ambition to work as a scribe, a profession closed to women.

Eleanor discovers that Lincoln is a dangerous place, divided by religious prejudice, the Jews frequently the focus of violence and forced to wear a yellow badge. Eleanor falls in love with Asher, a Jewish spicer, who shares her love of books and words, but their relationship is forbidden by law. When Eleanor is pulled into the dark depths of the church's machinations against Jews and the king issues an edict expelling all Jews from England, Eleanor and Asher are faced with an impossible choice.

Vivid, rich, deep and sensual, The Fire and the Rose is a tender and moving novel about how language, words and books have the power to change and shape lives. Most powerfully, it is also a novel about what it is to be made 'other', to be exiled from home and family. But it is also a call to recognise how much we need the other, the one we do not understand, making it a strikingly resonant and powerfully hopeful novel for our times.

Terms and Conditions:

Entries open 9.00am AEST on 3 April 2023 and close 11.59pm AEST on 30 April 2023. Australian residents aged 18 years and over only. Limited to one entry per eligible The Australian Plus member. Winners drawn on 1 May 2023 at 4.00pm AEST at Nationwide News Pty Ltd, 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010. Winners’ name to be published within 7 days after the draw date on The Australian Plus website. There are 15 x copies of The Fire and the Rose by Robyn Cadwallader books to be won. Total prize pool valued at $494.85. Winners drawn from entrants who are eligible The Australian Plus members.