Rapture by Emily Maguire #foliosociety in the face of crippling

in the face of crippling ennui

' Kylie Lee Baker

one of the best books to be published for 7-9 year-olds this year' The Bookseller

can they evade the darkness that was awoken on their arrival and seal the pathway between worlds before it is too late

drool and generally revel in a deeply strange new world ruled by a tyrannical tiny leader

Rapture by Emily Maguire #foliosociety in the face of cripplingLonglisted for the Stella Prize Shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year award The legend is only the beginning . . . Ninth century Mainz, in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Agnes is the motherless child of an English priest a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. But when tragedy strikes, she is suddenly forced to choose between what is expected of her and the life she has always dreamed of. Determined to