There are suppositions that she was a bastard daughter of nobility. “There are suppositions that she was an abbess. “She was the first female poet in the French language that we know of,” Groff said. In an interview with NPR, Groff said that not much is known about the real-life Marie. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus wrote, “Groff’s trademarkworthy sentences bring vivid buoyancy to a magisterial story.” The novel was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. In Groff’s version of her life, Marie is sent by the monarch Eleanor of Aquitaine to a run-down convent in rural England, which she gradually transforms into a lush estate. Groff’s novel, her fourth, follows Marie de France, the 12th-century poet. Lauren Groff’s Matrix is the latest pick for the Vox book club.
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