[Catlady]

Listening to Katherine J. Chen's novel Joan, narrated by Hannah Morrish, has set me off an a bit of a Joan of Arc kick. Chen's take is quite interesting--Joan isn't especially religious and doesn't hear voices--but

Spoiler:

the story ends with Joan's capture, leaving out the trial and execution; I am guessing that the author would not have been able to reconcile the absence of voices with any fact-based account of Joan's trial

I followed that up with Helen Castor's Joan of Arc: A History, narrated by Anne Flosnik. This book spends a lot of time on the historical events and political climate leading up to Joan's arrival on the scene and basically nothing about her early life (which is a major aspect of Chen's novel).

Now I'm about to start another Joan novel, Kimberly Cutter's The Maid, narrated by Rosalyn Landor. After that, possibly Mark Twain's book on Joan, if I can decide between the three audiobooks with three different narrators (Michael Anthony, Robin Field, Jim Hodges).