by Judith Merkle Riley · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422646914
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«Una mujer en la tormenta» is the historical and romantic novel by Judith Merkle Riley, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (446 pages, in Spanish).
Margaret de Ashbury, illiterate and married at fourteen to a merchant, dictates her life to Friar Gregory in fourteenth-century London. She survives the Black Death, becomes a healer and midwife, and a mystical vision gives her a healing gift that brings her before an ecclesiastical court.
First installment of the «Margaret de Ashbury» series; the original, «A Vision of Light», was published in 1988 and this edition features a translation by Francisco Martín.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction set in the Middle Ages, with a female protagonist and touches of mystery.
Judith Merkle Riley was an American political scientist and novelist. Writing as Judith A. Merkle, she published Management and Ideology: The Legacy of the International Scientific Management Movement (1980), a study of scientific management reviewed in major historical journals. Beginning in 1988, under her married name, she wrote six historical novels set in late medieval and early modern Europe.
