A review by kleonard
The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning

1.0

The premise--what happens to the nuns when Henry VIII closes the monasteries and abbeys--is a good one. But the book is dull and pedestrian, peopled by dim and shallowly created characters, narrated by a young woman who upon leaving her abbey goes on a Forrest Gump-like journey through the period's famous figures and places.