Emily Maguire

Rapture is 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 Stone Yard...

'Bold, furious, unapologetic and deeply insightful.'Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours 'A stunning, immersive novel that will change the conversation about class and about what possessions mean. It's important and funny and sad and beautiful and I absolutely adored it.'Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace and Fury 'One of the most big-hearted novels I've ever read. Each person fully...