February OzLit Book Club - Rapture by Emily Maguire

Join us for the OzLit Book Club gathering on 26th February at 6pm at The Book Cow, where the month's chosen title is Rapture by Emily Maguire. 

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 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.

So 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.

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.

Buy the book on our website or in store. Spaces will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. New members are most welcome.