{"id":1224,"date":"2020-09-23T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marysharratt.com\/main\/?page_id=1224"},"modified":"2022-04-21T10:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T10:53:57","slug":"revelations-a-novel-by-mary-sharratt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marysharratt.com\/main\/books\/revelations-a-novel-by-mary-sharratt\/","title":{"rendered":"Revelations – A Novel by Mary Sharratt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A fifteenth-century Eat, Pray, Love,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>REVELATIONS\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>illuminates the intersecting lives of two female\u00a0mystics who changed history\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\u201cStunning . . . . a fascinating and important story.\u201d ~Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary Sharratt, who \u201chas built a career writing meticulously researched, fascinating historical novels about strong women forgotten by time\u201d (Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/strong>), creates her most riveting portrait yet with the story of two medieval mystics who changed history.<\/p>\n

Bishop\u2019s Lynn, England, 1413. Forty-year-old Margery Kempe has barely survived giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can\u2019t trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich.<\/p>\n

Margery confesses that she has been haunted by visceral, sensual images of the divine which send her into helpless fits of weeping. Julian then shares a confession of her own: she has written a secret book about her mystical visions, Revelations of Divine Love<\/em>. This dangerous text describes an unconditionally loving God and threatens the established Church\u2019s insistence on eternal damnation. Nearing the end of her life, Julian entrusts the book to Margery, who sets off the adventure of a lifetime to spread Julian’s radical, female vision of the divine.<\/p>\n

As Margery blazes her pilgrim\u2019s trail across Europe and the Near East, she must use all her wits to ward off accusations of heresy\u2014and being burned at the stake. Grappling with self-doubt, she nevertheless finds a unique spiritual path for a woman of her time, not in a cloistered cell like Julian, but in the worldly bustle of life as laywoman, wife, and mother with all of its peril and wonder.<\/p>\n

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Available wherever books and ebooks are sold!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Read an EXCERPT<\/a><\/p>\n

Revelations Book Group Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

Press Release and Author Q & A<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Sharratt in conversation with Mary Ann Grossmann of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Sharratt discusses Margery Kempe on What’s Her Name Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Sharratt on It’s Just Historical Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary Sharratt on Wine, Women, and Words<\/a><\/p>\n

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AUDIOBOOK PREVIEW:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/marysharratt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/9780358450436_002.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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