‘This moving novel by bestselling author Sue Monk Kidd persuasively imagines the marriage between a brilliant young woman and Jesus’ Daily Mail Ana is a truly wonderful character, strong and inspiring, and her life story so captivating that it swept me along’ Good Housekeeping Original, challenging, beautiful’ Adele Parks, Platinum ‘Unleashes the reader’s imagination with glorious evocations of extraordinary times and places, allowing our minds to roam. It is a true masterpiece’ Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed ‘I kept having to close this novel and breathe deeply, again and again. The Book of Longings is an exquisite tale of dreams and desire, and of the power of women to change the world. Ana’s journey will bring both joy and tragedy, but it will also be enriched by the female friendships she makes along the way. But an encounter with a charismatic young carpenter in Nazareth awakens new longings in her, and a different future opens up. A voice that will speak for the silenced women around her.īetrothed to an elderly widower, Ana almost despairs. Taught to read despite her mother’s misgivings, she wants to be a writer and to find her own voice. Clev er, rebellious Ana is a memorable character’ The TimesĪna is born in Galilee at a time when women are seen as possessions, only leaving their fathers’ homes to marry.Īna longs to control her destiny. The stunning bestseller about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings
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