Even if she does still insist that she is being held against her will, both she and her family will be covered with shame if she leaves the nunnery.įurther complicating the story is Serafina's astounding singing voice, something the convent can use to make money to finance itself, and therefore not something it will give up without a fight. First, there is no possibility of release until her one-year meeting with the bishop.
But even if she has been coerced, leaving the convent is not easy. Her rebellion against imprisonment turns convent life upside down for the nuns as she desperately plots her escape. Serafina herself is in love with her music teacher, whom she could never, of course, marry under any circumstances. Sacred Hearts, Serafina has not been brought up for the veil, but had to be hastily cloistered once the man she was intended to marry preferred her sister.
Once the affair is stopped by forces beyond their control, the girl moves with her daughter to a convent, where she learns to find peace and can pursue the art she loves. The Birth of Venus, in which a teenage girl in 15th-century Florence defies strict social custom to follow her heart, having a brief but passionate affair with a painter. Sacred Hearts is in some ways the opposite of Dunant's first historical novel,
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