TY - BOOK AU - Dunant,Sarah TI - Sacred hearts: a novel SN - 1400063825 AV - PR6054.U45756 S33 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Convents KW - Italy KW - Fiction KW - Nuns KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - 16th century KW - Ferrara (Italy) KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd N1 - "Originally published in the United Kingdom by Virago Press, an imprint of the Little, Brown Book Group, London"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliography: p. [413]-415 N2 - The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core ER -