Victoria MacKenzie
1. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain Winner of the Scottish National First Book Awards 2023
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3 Stunden und 33 Minuten
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Erscheinungsdatum
19.01.2023
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Lesung
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Bloomsbury AcademicSprache
Englisch
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9781526647900
Bloomsbury presents For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie, read by Charlie Norfolk and Stephanie Racine.
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women – by a major new talent
'Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done' THE TIMES, Book of the Month
'A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER
'Electrifying ... A pocket epic' GUARDIAN
'The best first novel I've read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing' RODDY DOYLE
'A vibrant portrait of female courage' OBSERVER
Winner of the Scottish Book Awards – First Book of the Year
Selected as a book of the year by the Sunday Times, Guardian, Scotsman and Irish Times
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In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich.
Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband's abuse – have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic.
Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-three years. She has told no one of her own visions – and knows that time is running out for her to do so.
The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more powerful than the world is ready to hear. Their meeting will change everything.
Sensual, vivid and humane, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women.
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'Magnificent, bold and compelling' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling The Leviathan
'A startling read ... Magic' JO BROWNING WROE, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling A Terrible Kindness
'Intimately observed, lyrically written and meticulously researched. I loved this' KIRSTY LOGAN, author of Things We Say in the Dark
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women – by a major new talent
'Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done' THE TIMES, Book of the Month
'A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER
'Electrifying ... A pocket epic' GUARDIAN
'The best first novel I've read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing' RODDY DOYLE
'A vibrant portrait of female courage' OBSERVER
Winner of the Scottish Book Awards – First Book of the Year
Selected as a book of the year by the Sunday Times, Guardian, Scotsman and Irish Times
___________________________________________________
In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich.
Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband's abuse – have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic.
Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-three years. She has told no one of her own visions – and knows that time is running out for her to do so.
The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more powerful than the world is ready to hear. Their meeting will change everything.
Sensual, vivid and humane, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women.
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'Magnificent, bold and compelling' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling The Leviathan
'A startling read ... Magic' JO BROWNING WROE, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling A Terrible Kindness
'Intimately observed, lyrically written and meticulously researched. I loved this' KIRSTY LOGAN, author of Things We Say in the Dark
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A quick but moving read for fans of a feminist view on history
Bewertung am 12.04.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1920313
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
Victoria MacKenzie introduces us to two very important historic female figures - Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe - both of whom not only claim to have visions of Christ, but also left behind written records. Julian of Norwich her 'Revelations of Divine Love' and Margery Kempe, while not written by her own hand, a work that is considered to be the first autobiography written in English.
While the concept of having holy visions might seem very far away to us nowadays, MacKenzie gives both women a backstory and emotional depth in such a way that explains why, born out of grief, loneliness, postnatal depression and the overall frustrations of being a woman at a time where choices to shape one's own future were extremely limited, the presence of Jesus might have been a coping mechanism not too difficult to understand for a modern reader. The author does all that within less than 200 pages, which I found very impressive! This was a quick but impactful reading experience, which I recommend to anyone who's interested in female history.
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