ASIN: B07459C598
Publisher: Kay Crisp Books
Pages: 316
Winner of the Royal Palm Literary Award for Historical Fiction.What if you could pay someone to take away your sorrow?In the middle ages people believed a mother mourning her child could "sell her sorrow" by selling a nail from her child's coffin to a traveling peddler.Lady Celeste is overwhelmed with grief when her son dies. Desperate for relief, she begs a passing peddler to buy her sorrow. Jean, the cynical peddler she meets, is nobody's fool; he insists she include her ruby ring along with the nail in return for his coin. A strange but welcome forgetfulness comes over Celeste when the transaction is completed – until she learns that without her wedding ring her husband may set her aside, leaving her ruined. She embarks on an urgent journey to retrieve it. But how will she find the peddler and convince him to give up the precious ruby ring?Pretending to be on pilgrimage, Lady Celeste ...
