{"product_id":"rapture","title":"Rapture","description":"\u003cp data-v-e0819252=\"\" class=\"product-keynote\"\u003eAn imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Objects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Isolated Incident\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-v-e0819252=\"\" class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'\u003ci\u003eRapture\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis astonishing – a scorching vision of a book. Drawing on history, legend, speculation and gossip, Maguire's medieval girl-Pope story is made of many things: flesh and earth and blood; ambition and abnegation; rage and transcendence, all pouring into this pagan, biblical, strange and mighty work from an imagination in soaring flight.' – Charlotte Wood, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRapture\u003c\/i\u003e, Maguire has performed the dazzling feat of making the earthly feel miraculous and the heavenly feel intimate. This glorious novel both burns and sings.' – Fiona McFarlane, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sun Walks Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Profound, frightening and extraordinarily beautiful.' - Evie Wyld, author of\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Bass Rock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A powerful story of female courage and faith, of deception and love.' -\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Age\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43531517329442,"sku":"9781761470899","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/files\/Copy-of-Book-Template---2025-02-22T145147-011.jpg?v=1740189305","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/rapture","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}