Blood Red, Sister Rose: A Novel of Joan of Arc

A reissue of an acclaimed early novel by Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of Schindler’s List, that reimagines the legendary Joan of Arc not as a mythical saint, but as a fiercely human, plain-spoken girl whose fate is intertwined with that of France.

Jehanne, an illiterate peasant girl of seventeen, hears voices that tell her she must help the Dauphin become king. But this proves hard to accomplish in 15th-century France, as the British occupy parts of the country, including Rheims,...