{"product_id":"rapture","title":"Rapture","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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":"Emily Maguire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46143397331113,"sku":"9781761470899","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781761470899.jpg?v=1754017380","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/rapture","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}