Red-Robed Priestess: A Novel

by Elizabeth Cunningham

Overview

"With Red-Robed Priestess, Cunningham, a storyteller as crafty as J.K. Rowling, ends the Maeve Chronicles befittingly and beautifully, with a fourth novel as fully fruited as the first."—Publisher's Weekly

In this final installment of The Maeve Chronicles, Maeve (the Celtic Mary Magdalen) returns to the British Isles to seek her firstborn daughter, taken from her by the druids more than forty years ago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939681560
Publisher:	Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Series:	The Maeve Chronicles , #4
Edition description:	First Trade Paper Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Cunningham is the direct descendant of nine generations of Episcopal priests. She grew up hearing rich (sometimes terrifying) liturgical and biblical language. She is the author of seven novels and three collections of poetry.

Editorial Reviews

With Red-Robed Priestess, Cunningham, a storyteller as crafty as J.K. Rowling, ends the Maeve Chronicles befittingly and beautifully, with a fourth novel as fully fruited as the first. Maeve, the Celtic daughter of eight warrior mothers in the first century, is also a prescient storyteller who speaks 21st-century colloquial (“now here is where it gets a little dicey”). Throughout the books, she is a Druid, a prostitute in Rome, a healer “with the fire of the stars in her hands,” a weather witch at sea, a priestess, and, as Mary Magdalen, the wife of Jesus and mother of their daughter, Sarah. On a quest near the end of her saucy, savvy life, her red hair gray, Maeve finds her first daughter, taken from her at birth by the Druids, in Boudica, Britain’s legendary rebel queen. The battle of the Iceni against the Romans, famed in song and story, contrasts with the peace Maeve finds at last. Cunningham, always excellent when detailing bloody battles and earthy sex, exercises well her skills with description, history, and myth in and out of the Bible, character, song, and poetry, especially in the fine and final poem. (Nov. 15)

Publishers Weekly

"With Red-Robed Priestess, Cunningham, a storyteller as crafty as J.K. Rowling, ends the Maeve Chronicles befittingly and beautifully, with a fourth novel as fully fruited as the first."—Publisher's Weekly

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