Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: The Round, The Dukes
In Conversation with Inés Gregori Lambarta, Alex Wragge-Morley and Stephanie Wright
‘Electrifying. This slim novel is a pocket epic; you will read it in no time but be thinking about it for ages after’ Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Guardian
In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich. Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic. Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-three years. She has told no one of her own visions – and knows that time is running out for her to do so. The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more powerful than the world is ready to hear.
‘A beautiful book … And it's funny. It warmed my heart’ Max Porter
Author:
Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer and poet. She is the winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award and the inaugural Emerging Writer Award from Moniack Mhor. She has been awarded writing residencies in Scotland, Finland and Australia and teaches creative writing for the Open College of the Arts.
Inés Gregori Labarta is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
Alex Wragge-Morley is a Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at Lancaster University.
Stephanie Wright is a Lecturer in Modern European History at Lancaster University.
AGE GUIDANCE: 16+
