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A genre-busting, gender-bending Vatican thriller.
About the author
London-based
Maggie Hamand is a novelist, journalist, and non-fiction author. Maggie brings her acumen as a journalist and as a founding publisher of acclaimed independent The Maia Press to the PR campaign for this book. Maggie is author of the best-selling
Creative Writing for Dummies, and her first novel,
The Resurrection of the Body, was published to critical acclaim and has been optioned for film and television. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the
University of Hull, where she leads MA modules in the Short Story and the Novel.
Summary
Patrick, the first Irish Pope, is sure of many things: his faith, the sanctity of life, that he is a man, that he is celibate.
Then all he's held true is cast into doubt.
How can he act as the moral heart of the church when his convictions falter and his secrets threaten to destroy all he's achieved? Catholicism and modern morality are held in tension, and Pope Patrick must make once unimaginable choices. When the truth begins to emerge, the Vatican wants him silenced. The Pope’s sheltered existence becomes a race of life and death.
