The international bestselling author Marianne Fredriksson tells the passionate story of the life of Mary Magdalene.
'Simply mesmerising...a wonderfully moving portrait of a passionate and controversial figure from myth and history' MS LONDON'Intriguing, funny and moving' EVE magazine
'Simply mesmerising...a wonderfully moving portrait of a passionate and controversial figure from myth and history' MS LONDON
'Her gospel contains many episodes familiar from the others, but it is radical in its feminisation of them' INDEPENDENT
Long after the death of Christ, Mary Magdalene is married to a silk merchant, Leonidas. She lives a quiet and harmonious life until, one day, the apostle Peter comes to the market square to preach and she slips into the crowd to hear what he has to say. She is not impressed, and wants to forget that Jesus chose death, not life with her. But she has reckoned without the apostles who persuade her to write down everything she can remember.
Mary starts with her Jewish childhood and the slaughter of her family by the Romans. Running for her life, she is rescued by Leonidas who leaves her in a 'house of pleasure' where she grows into a beautiful woman. Then she meets and falls deeply in love with a young man from Nazareth - and her life changes. . .
Simply written and simply mesmerising...a wonderfully moving portrait of a passionate and controversial figure from myth and history - MS LONDON
Intriguing, funny and moving - EVE
Fredriksson leaves us in no doubt of Mary Magdalene's love for Jesus ... I was engaged by Fredriksson's sincerity and her quest to understand the roots of early Christianity - SPECTATOR
This is a playfully but deliberately blasphemous book ... Her gospel contains many episodes familiar from the others, but it is radical in its feminisation of them - INDEPENDENT
Marianne Fredriksson was born in 1929 in Gothenburg, Sweden. She was a well known writer and journalist before she wrote her first book in 1980 and became an international bestseller. She is the author of numerous novels, including HANNA'S DAUGHTERS for which she was awarded the Author of the Year award and Book of the Year award in 1994. She died in 2007.