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According to Mary
On sale
8th December 2022
Price: £9.99
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ebook / ISBN-13: 9781398710320
‘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 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. . .
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Reviews
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
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
Simply written and simply mesmerising...a wonderfully moving portrait of a passionate and controversial figure from myth and history
Intriguing, funny and moving