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Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease . . .
Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world that gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy into a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around.
"Stunning, grand, and mythic, Matrix feels both ancient and urgent, as holy as it is deeply human." -- Entertainment Weekly