Rapture

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  • Author:
    MAGUIRE Emily
  • ISBN:
    9781761470899
  • Publication Date:
    October 2024
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    320
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Allen and Unwin
  • Country of Publication:
    Australia
Rapture
Rapture

Rapture

Regular price $36.99
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    MAGUIRE Emily
  • ISBN:
    9781761470899
  • Publication Date:
    October 2024
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    320
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Allen and Unwin
  • Country of Publication:
    Australia

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An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident.

The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman.

So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, Agnes (as John) dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge and wisdom and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerful-and deadly-currency.

And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known-and loved.

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  • An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident.

    The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman.

    So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, Agnes (as John) dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge and wisdom and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerful-and deadly-currency.

    And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known-and loved.

An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident.

The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman.

So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, Agnes (as John) dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge and wisdom and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerful-and deadly-currency.

And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known-and loved.