{"product_id":"the-miracle-at-st-brunos","title":"The Miracle at St. Bruno's","description":"\"I was born in the September of 1523  nine months after the monks had discovered the child in the crib on that Christmas morning. My birth was  my father used to say  another He was not young at the time being forty years of age . . . My mother  whose great pleasure was tending her gardens  called me Damask  after the rose which Dr. Linacre  the Kings physician  had brought into England that year.\"Thus begins the story narrated by Damask Farland  daughter of a well-to-do lawyer whose considerable lands adjoin those of St. Brunos Abbey. It is a story of a life inextricably enmashed with that of Bruno  the mysterious child found on the abbey altar that Christmas morning and raised by the monks to become a man at once handsome and saintly  but also brooding and ominous  tortured by the secret of his origin which looms ever more menacingly over the huge abbey he comes to dominate.This is also the story of an engaging family  the Farlands. Of a fathr wise enough to understand \"the happier our King is  the happier I as a true subject must be \" a wife twenty years his junior  and a daughter whose intelligence is constantly to war with the strange hold Bruno has upon her destiny. What happens to the Farlands against the background of what is happening to King Henry and his court during this robust period provides a novel in which suspense and the highlights of history are wonderfully balanced.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44669284384821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0445085339","price":90.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0445085339_478e8c7a-6f43-4e38-b49f-05efe7426cac.jpg?v=1770587360","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-miracle-at-st-brunos","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}