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This is a beautifully written and rich account of the author's impression of the life of Sarai, the matriarch of the Nation of Israel.
It begin's with her initiation at the age of twelve in the city of Ur, where she is the beautiful daughter of a wealthy nobleman ,after her 'first blood'. She is then given as a bride to a brutal Chaldean nobleman, and flees from his clutches, where she encounters Abram, a young and dashing man from a nomadic tribe near Ur. She is brought home by her father's guards in disgrace, and later takes herbs from a local witch, which destroys her fertility.
She is ordained as a temple priestess before being rescued by Abram, and becomes his wife, journeying with him and his clan to Harran, in modern day Turkey, to Canaan (Israel), and a sojourn in Egypt.
Her beauty does not fade after many years, but she is embittered by her failure to bare children.
Later we are shown her closeness to her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, who she later shows jealousy towards, when Hagar gives birth to Ishmail.
The novel introduces new elements such as the lust for Sarai of Abram's nephew Lot, and Sarai's dislike for Abram's servant, Eliezer of Damascus.

The end, from Sarah's miraculous birth of Isaac, until her last days, is rather rushed.