

The Chalice
Author: Nancy Bilyeau
Narrator: Nicola Barber
Unabridged: 14 hr 50 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/01/2013
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Nancy Bilyeau
Narrator: Nicola Barber
Unabridged: 14 hr 50 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/01/2013
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Nancy Bilyeau is a writer and magazine editor who has worked on the staffs of InStyle, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Good Housekeeping. Her latest position is features editor of Du Jour magazine. A native of the Midwest, she graduated from the University of Michigan. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
4.5 Stars. Having really enjoyed Nancy Bilyeau's debut novel The Crown, I couldn't wait to see what was next for former novice-turned-spy Joanna Stafford. When The Chalice begins, Joanna is struggling a bit in transitioning into secular life now that the monasteries and priories have been dissolved......more
I've had a hard time categorizing this series. The Crown was nominally a historical mystery, which is why I had picked it up, but ended up being more historical suspense. Now The Chalice drops mystery altogether, focusing instead on a prophecy for Sister Joanna that throws her into danger. So maybe......more
Bilyeau’s first book, The Crown, brought us the determined but naïve Joanna Stafford, Dominican nun and daughter of a disgraced aristocratic family, during Henry VIII’s reign. In The Chalice Henry’s dissolution of the monasteries has sent a more experienced but no less stubborn Joanna out into the s......more
This novel is solid. It has a well constructed unique plot with an equally unique heroine. Joanna is a well constructed character, I simply need to know what happens next! I want to know if she finds happiness, love, and if she ever gets to have a nice quiet life in the country with her tapestry loo......more