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Local DescriptionA wonderful re-vitalisation of the English mystics Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. Author Biography: Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer and poet. She is the winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award and the inaugural Emerging Writer Award from Moniack Mhor. She was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, as well as being awarded prestigious writing residencies in Scotland, Finland and Australia. She teaches creative writing for the Open College of the Arts. She lives in Scotland. DescriptionAn astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent. In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich. Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband's abuse have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic. REVIEW: Magnificent, bold and compelling' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling The Leviathan 'Compelling and beautiful. MacKenzie performs a small miracle' ALISON LIGHT, author of A RADICAL ROMANCE 'Intimately observed, lyrically written and meticulously researched. I loved this' KIRSTY LOGAN, author of THINGS WE SAY IN THE DARK |