The Secret Testament of Julian

<p>Julian of Norwich was the first woman in the world to write a book in English and yet had largely disappeared from view until her rediscovery during the twentieth century.</p><p>A fourteenth century anchoress in Norwich she lived in a cell for forty years surrounded by savage plague political inequality and religious bigotry.</p><p>Yet Julian gave the world one of its most famous calls to hope: ‘All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.’</p><p>Who was she? Why did she pray for a near-death experience and then choose containment in a cell? And how did she come to speak with such optimism?</p><p>In <em>The Secret Testament of Julian</em> she tells her own story full of difficulty and joy. No plaster saint but a flesh and blood woman who from the silence of her cell speaks with a strength that few today can equal.</p><p>Let Julian tell her story.</p>