Her second novel, Arcadia (2012), explored the failure of utopian communities in the 1970s, and her third, Fates and Furies, about an unconventional marriage, was picked by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015. Groff, 43, grew up in Cooperstown, New York a place she fictionalised as a picture-perfect town in her bestselling debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton (2008). This wasn’t our most thrilling read of the year so far, but we enjoyed it nonetheless. Backed by her "army of nuns", the women undersell male scribes and rout unscrupulous tenants. At first taken aback by life at the abbey, Marie slowly grows accustomed to her new life and charts a bold new course for her mercurial sisters, enacting an increasingly extravagant plan for a female utopia. In the novel, 17 year old Marie is expelled from the royal court to become the prioress of an abbey. Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court and sent to Angleterre. She is best known for her collection of twelve poems titled “The Lais of Marie de France”.
The novel is a re-imagination of Marie de France’s life, the earliest known French woman poet that lived during the Middle Ages in Europe.
Released on 14 September, Lauren Groff’s audacious new novel “Matrix” is a bold vision of female love, devotion and desire.
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