About the Book: 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 wi…| Theresa Smith Writes
At first, I was a bit puzzled by award winning Emily Maguire’s venture into historical fiction in her new novel Rapture. I know her as an author who writes powerful novels that explore cont…| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
Fiction – paperback; Allen & Unwin; 310 pages; 2024. Emily Maguire’s Rapture is the story of an “unmarriageable girl” in the 9th century who disguises herself as a man t…| Reading Matters