This sensual account of a woman seeking knowledge and God in a man’s world brings us close to matters of faith and the body
Emily Maguire has written across fiction and nonfiction, for adults and young people, stepping easily from one to the other across a career punctuated by award wins and shortlistings (including her 2016 novel, An Isolated Incident, shortlisted for the Stella prize, the Miles Franklin and the ABIA book of the year).
In Rapture, her seventh novel, she turns her hand to historical fiction. Drawing inspiration from the life of Pope Joan, the woman who (according to legend) disguised herself as a man and served as pope for two years during the middle ages, Maguire examines questions of faith using the language of the body.
Rapture by Emily Maguire is published by Allen and Unwin ($32.99)
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