"Had my journey made me wise? Had my secret griefs made me strong?" This highly imagined story-based on the few known facts about the great poet's daughter-is set against the dramatic background of pre-Renaissance Europe.

A young Shakeress in the mid-1800s searches for her true self and for the way to meet her spiritual needs.

A compelling, often heartbreaking portrait of a brilliant young woman's struggle against a debilitating psychological illness set against the events of the Prague Spring and the anti-Soviet struggles in Czecholoslovokia. When Jude's mother gets a...