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Luther's RosePastor's wifeLUTHER'S ROSE After a daring escape from her convent, a devout nun finds herself married to the radical monk whose writings have turned her life upside down. In her new life she suffers extreme hostility, wars, plague, the Peasants' Revolt and great personal loss. Katharina von Bora's story is simply told and brought convincingly to life by the author's use of dramatised fact, woven together with her imagined thoughts. Although she agonises over dreams and forbodings about her loved ones, and is said to have appealed to the sorrowing mother of Christ; although she is in anguish over God's providence in her life, Katharina stands firmly with Luther in proclaiming faith in Christ alone. Her love for, and dependence on her Lord Christ, is revealed in her dying moments when she longs to be a burr sticking to his garment. This biography is an encouragement for any who are suffering today. It also brings the Reformation era vibrantly close, and with it, a very human Martin Luther and his Katie. Maureen Gardner,
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