About this book
Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago by Emily Sarah Holt transports listeners to the late thirteenth century, where cathedral incense, embroidered copes, and courtly ritual shape a world both foreign and familiar.
Told through the gentle voice of Avice, an elder who once served as a nursery maid at Windsor and Westminster, this historical fiction paints an intimate portrait of medieval life. Holt evokes Lincoln Cathedral’s painted images and the daily rhythms of a royal household while exploring how society understood faith, disability, and childhood. Central is the relationship between Avice and a royal little lady born deaf and mute, whose private gestures and quiet devotion challenge contemporary expectations about prayer, communication, and compassion. Written in accessible, period‑flavored prose, the novel balances historical detail with literary sensitivity, illuminating social customs, religious feeling, and the resilience of human connection in the Middle Ages.
Perfect for fans of historical fiction, religiously infused literature, and teen/young adult listeners curious about medieval society, this audiobook offers a heartfelt, thoughtful journey into a vanished world and the small, powerful lives within it.
