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Hetty Dearden has taken early retirement after an unhappy affair with the male head of the history department at the college at which she lectured. She is asked to attend a conference in German, where the subject is to be Europe: Past and Present. Whilst researching, she comes across an intriguing letter from an eight-century nun, Tetta, who had also made her way to Germany — in her case, in search of her aunt who had disappeared some ten years before, and to take up her new position as the head of a religious foundation in the untamed Europe of Charlemagne. There, she has immense influence not only within her own church and order but also in court.
Hetty is drawn into a love affair with a young German woman and, in her turn, is thus brought closer to the frightening underworld of political dissent in a Europe which has only recently begun to reject the codes and systems of the Cold War. Hetty’s adventures develop in parallel to those of her predecessor, and past and present intertwine, throwing light upon each other. Themes range from female sexuality to politics, power, and religion while the idea of Europe itself is woven into the dual plot.
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