A Gathering of Ghosts

Name: A Gathering of Ghosts
Rating: 4.4 (376 reviews)

by Karen Maitland

First published 2018

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Dartmoor, 1316. Famine has tightened its grip on the countryside, and the isolated Priory of St Mary survives by tending the sick, sheltering travellers and guarding an ancient holy well. Prioress Johanne and the Sisters of the Knights of St John are drawn into mounting tension when outsiders, local beliefs and the desperate search for food threaten the fragile order of the moor.

As hunger deepens, rumours of pagan rites and supernatural forces gather around the priory and the surrounding communities. Maitland sets suspicion, faith and old custom against the reality of the Great Famine, following people forced to decide what they will sacrifice when survival and belief begin to pull in opposite directions.