Author: marysharratt

A kind of fifteenth-century Eat, Pray, Love, Revelations illuminates the intersecting lives of two female mystics who changed history–Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. Bishop’s Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can’t trust her … she can’t trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich. Pouring out her heart, Margery confesses that she has been haunted by visceral religious visions.…

Alma comes of age in 20th-century Vienna, longing to compose music — but as she draws the attention of men from Gustav Klimt to the composer Gustav Mahler, she grapples with a life-changing decision. “Mary Sharratt plunges the reader into the tumultuous and glamorous fin de siècle era, bringing to life its brilliant and beguiling leading lady” (Allison Pataki).

This “gripping” novel (Publishers Weekly) imagines the life of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine abbess who experienced divine visions — and devoted herself to creativity and service. A “tour de force” that “will captivate the reader from the very first page” (New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman).