Life as Carola
- Author Joan Grant
- Narrator Mil Nicholson
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 12 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: general and literary, Occult fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction.
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What to expect
The second of Joan Grant’s Far Memory novels, Life as Carola gives a fascinating glimpse into life in Italy just before the height of the Renaissance.
As a child growing up in Edwardian England, Joan Grant became aware of an astonishing ability to remember previous lifetimes. As an author, she professed her seven novels to be based on her personal recollections of other incarnations, male and female.
Carola was the illegitimate daughter of an Italian nobleman, the Lord of the Griffin, in sixteenth-century Italy. Cast out at an early age, she joined a band of strolling players. In her short lifetime, Carola gathers harsh experiences of poverty, violence, and bigotry, softened by the friendships she makes on the road: with Petruchio, both jester and sage; with Bernard, the gentle strongman, and Lucia, the harlot who loves him; and with healer Sofia, whose fate warns Carola to keep quiet about her dreams of the Shining One who guides and comforts her.
Critics Review
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“Here is an unusual book that shines with fire and that is packed with incident. It is vivid, dramatic, and skillfully put together.”
New York Times
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