Mary Sharratt Books in Order

A young German immigrant finds work translating fairy tales for a wealthy widow in wartime Minnesota. Their growing intimacy offers comfort and possibility, but the household’s concealed pain forces Kathrin to confront the darker truths beneath its promise of belonging.

In a rigid Minnesota town, a young woman’s work for an independent expectant mother unsettles her difficult relationship with her own mother. Their intersecting lives challenge narrow expectations and open possibilities for dignity, self-definition and escape from familiar constraints.

Traveling to colonial Maryland to join her sister, educated Hannah discovers that May has disappeared. Searching for answers while drawn to her brother-in-law, she must navigate an unfamiliar landscape where freedom from old rules brings disturbing uncertainty and danger.

An impoverished healer passes her knowledge to her granddaughter as fear of witchcraft spreads through their community. When an illness becomes grounds for accusation, neighbors and relatives are turned against one another in a novel shaped by the Pendle witch trials.

Given to the Church as a child, Hildegard endures decades of confinement while finding strength in study, herbs and private visions. This historical novel imagines her struggle to claim a public spiritual voice and greater freedom for herself and other women.

Seeking freedom from a loveless marriage, poet Aemilia Bassano Lanier forms a creative and romantic partnership with Shakespeare. Their collaboration offers artistic possibility, but its aftermath forces her to reclaim her voice in a world eager to overlook women’s work.

Aspiring composer Alma Schindler comes of age amid Vienna’s artistic ferment and falls in love with Gustav Mahler. His demand that she abandon composing to marry him creates a conflict between devotion and the creative identity she longs to preserve.

After a dangerous childbirth, Margery Kempe seeks spiritual counsel from Julian of Norwich and receives a secret manuscript to protect. Her journey across Europe and the Near East becomes a search for vocation outside the enclosed life expected of female mystics.