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
Heaven is never-ending light. It is jasper and crystal, pearls and gold. It is lightning and rainbos and a great, rushing river. It is white horses and doves and angels singing holy holy holy and t…| This Reading Life
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
