Age of Miracles — Catherine Maccoun

Set in medieval England, this tale of romance and intrigue centers on Sister Ingrid, the infirmarian at Greyleigh Convent, who is famous for her miraculous powers of healing. When disgrace forces her to flee the convent, she finds her remedial power labelled as witchcraft.

Word of Inrid's first miracle-the Ladbrook healing- had traveled fast, luring an endless procession of ragbound suppliants to the gate. They could not be received on a daily basis without compromising the pece of the cloister, si it ha been decreed that Ingrid would bestow a general blessing on Pentecost and at scheduled intervals thereafter. It had seemed like a practical solution at the time. but the event was more chaotic than anyone could ever have anticiapted.Days in advance, vendors began arriving, campting just beyond the gate. Even in the cloister they could be heard hawking their wares: meat pies and ale, cakes and dried fruits, slivers of the true cross and pail parings of the Virgin. Pilgerms, beggars and invalids camped alongside them, and amid all the laughing and talking, singing and squabbling, one could hear the racking coughs and low moans