I finished last night that little jewelry. I was a bit skeptical about this novel because I thought I could not see the interest to tell the life of a living immured in the Middle Ages, but I had seen this author, presenting this novel about the Great Books the France 5, so ... Through the eyes of Esclarmonde, the whole life of his time, with the average age beliefs and superstitions. This is all the love of a mother for her child, his flesh, that the author make us feel. It is a novel that reads like drinking whey. I recommend it.