Frank Lawton

Thoroughly modern Marie: Matrix, by Lauren Groff, reviewed

A feminist abbess worries about gender roles and climate change in a novel based loosely on the life of the 12th-century poet Marie de France

Marie de France. [Alamy] 
issue 25 September 2021
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    Lauren Groff

    Heinemann, pp. 272, £16

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