Rapture l1r6q

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By Emily Maguire 5ul4m

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

'Her self is an illusion yet it is one beloved by most everyone who has heard her speak... She is thirty-three years old and there is no one else in the world who knows who she used to be.'

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.

Rapture is an astonishing, transformative and audacious novel that confirms Emily Maguire as one of our finest writers.

Rapture