The Leper's Companions

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<p>To escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. In a village by the sea she watches the lives of the inhabitants unfold around her. But the year is now 1410 and this is a world of devils and miracles, a world in which there are no clear boundaries between reality and the power of the imagination.</p><p>A man's discovery of a mermaid washed up on the sand starts a chain of events that leads three of the villagers to accompany the enigmatic figure of the leper on a pilgrimmage to the Holy Land. The woman joins them and sets out without the certainty of ever coming home again.</p><p><i>The Leper's Companions</i>was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.</p>

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Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction -<i>Charles Waterton</i>,<i>The</i><i>Emperor's Last Island</i>,<i>Daisy Bates in the Desert</i>,<i>Old Man Goya</i>and<i>The Three of Us</i>, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award. She has also written an autobiography,<i>Twin Paths</i>and<i>With Billie</i>- a family memoir; and two novels,<i>The Book of Colour</i>and<i>The Leper's Companions</i>, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in<i>My Animals and Other Family,</i>and four radio plays, including<i>The Spellbound Horses</i>.

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