The Shrouding Woman

A young girls awakening as she becomes an apprentice to a shrouder. It was once common practice for small towns to have a shrouding woman to help put their dead to rest. Still when eleven-year-old Evies Aunt Flo―herself a shrouding woman―comes to town Evie knows little of a shrouding womans ways and wants nothing to do with this aunt of hers especially after her own mothers recent death. But as this mysterious woman slowly makes her way into Evies life her strong presence brings far more than signs of death to a grieving girls home.. Set in the mid-1800s this lyrically written novel centered on the little-known practice of shrouding sensitively touches on the healing process of life.