Sarah Dunant - Sacred Hearts

Sarah Dunant is the author of the international bestseller The Birth of Venus. Her new novel, Sacred Hearts, is set in the year 1570 on the northern Italian city of Ferrara, in the convent of Santa Caterina, where one hundred women live inside God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. Serafina's dramatic forced admission into the convent sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the institution to its core. Sarah Dunant will be finishing up a semester of teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. Join us in giving her a proper send-off at this special reading and signing before she returns to her home in London. We'll bring the wine.