Nanon

Nanon is eleven years old and owns nothing but a ewe named Rosette when the Revolution comes to her corner of rural France. Raised by her great-uncle in grinding poverty near the abbey of Valcreux, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a gentle young novice monk - in reality Émilien, heir to the noble house of Franqueville, hiding from a world that no longer has room for men of his birth.As the Terror sweeps the countryside, sends the abbey's monks fleeing, and puts a price on the heads of aristocrats, it is Nanon - sharp-eyed, fearless, and utterly devoted - who becomes Émilien's protector. Disguised, resourceful, and driving a hard bargain with revolutionary tribunals and shrewd men of business alike, she hides him, feeds him, and keeps him alive through years of hunted exile in a remote fairy-haunted wilderness, while history burns down the world both of them were born into.A story of loyalty across the widest possible divide of birth and fortune, Nanon is George Sand's warm, clear-eyed tribute to the courage of ordinary people swept up in extraordinary times - and to a love that outlasts revolution, war, and the loss of everything else.