The Island of Mists and Miracles

<p>In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign.<br><br>Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace.<br><br>On the island she meets Hugo the son of a devout family who prefers to look for the meaning of life amid the stars; Madenn a grandmother whose daughter was killed in a crash and who finds meaning in routine; Isaac Madenn's grandson an otherworldly teenager who doesn't fit in but who befriends Hugo and Julia a sickly child. If anyone needs a miracle it is her.<br><br>But it is not Sister Anne who receives a vision. Instead it is Isaac who is found on a promontary transfixed unable to utter more than the words 'I see'. The event soon becomes headline news and the world descends on the small island opening old wounds and unleashing a chain of events none of them could have foreseen.</p> <i>The Mad Women's Ball </i>Victoria Mas's debut novel has won several prizes in France (including the Prix Stanislas and Prix Renaudot des Lycéens) and was the bestselling debut of the year. Victoria has worked in film in the United States where she lived for eight years. She graduated from the Sorbonne in Contemporary Literature.The Mad Women's Ball is now an Amazon Prime Video Original Film starring Mélanie Laurent and Lou de Louâge.