{"product_id":"rapture-emily-maguire-2024","title":"Rapture. Emily Maguire. 2024.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ 9781761470899 \/ Large","offer_id":42659730686034,"sku":"MAGUIRE5","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/64EBB59D-6F47-4AAE-A76D-BF0E28663365.jpg?v=1788157855","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/rapture-emily-maguire-2024","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}