Victoria MacKenzie – författare

WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK AWARDS - FIRST BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, SCOTSMAN AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER'Electrifying ... A pocket epic' GUARDIANAn astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talentIn the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in Norwich.Before they part, Julian will entrust Margery with a secret – one that will change the course of history.‘You will read it in no time but be thinking about it for ages after’ FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, GUARDIAN, Book of the day'Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done' THE TIMES, Book of the Month'The best first novel I've read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing' RODDY DOYLE'A vibrant portrait of female courage' OBSERVER‘A novel of rare brightness and clarity, concise and yet capacious: it illuminates like a shaft of sunlight’ IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent''Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done'' THE TIMES, Book of the Month''A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart'' MAX PORTER''Electrifying ... A pocket epic'' GUARDIAN''The best first novel I''ve read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing'' RODDY DOYLE''A vibrant portrait of female courage'' OBSERVERWinner of the Scottish Book Awards - First Book of the YearSelected as a book of the year by the Sunday Times, Guardian, Scotsman and Irish Times ___________________________________________________In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich. Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband''s abuse – have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic.Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-­three years. She has told no one of her own visions – and knows that time is running out for her to do so.The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more powerful than the world is ready to hear. Their meeting will change everything.Sensual, vivid and humane, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women.____________________________________________________________________________''Magnificent, bold and compelling'' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling The Leviathan''A startling read ... Magic'' JO BROWNING WROE, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling A Terrible Kindness''Intimately observed, lyrically written and meticulously researched. I loved this'' KIRSTY LOGAN, author of Things We Say in the Dark

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent''Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done'' THE TIMES, Book of the Month''A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart'' MAX PORTER''Electrifying ... A pocket epic'' GUARDIAN''The best first novel I''ve read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing'' RODDY DOYLE''A vibrant portrait of female courage'' OBSERVERWinner of the Scottish Book Awards - First Book of the YearSelected as a book of the year by the Sunday Times, Guardian, Scotsman and Irish Times ___________________________________________________In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich. Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband''s abuse – have placed her in danger with the men of the Church, who have begun to hound her as a heretic.Julian, an anchoress, has not left Norwich, nor the cell to which she has been confined, for twenty-­three years. She has told no one of her own visions – and knows that time is running out for her to do so.The two women have stories to tell one another. Stories about girlhood, motherhood, sickness, loss, doubt and belief; revelations more powerful than the world is ready to hear. Their meeting will change everything.Sensual, vivid and humane, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain cracks history open to reveal the lives of two extraordinary women.____________________________________________________________________________''Magnificent, bold and compelling'' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling The Leviathan''A startling read ... Magic'' JO BROWNING WROE, author of the Sunday Times-bestselling A Terrible Kindness''Intimately observed, lyrically written and meticulously researched. I loved this'' KIRSTY LOGAN, author of Things We Say in the Dark

An epic, intimate and profound novel about grief, trauma, revelation and art – by the author of the award-winning For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain‘Every sentence sings off the page’ Jan CarsonThe year is 1875, and John Ruskin is losing his mind.The celebrated art critic, the revered Professor of Art, the author of countless books, the campaigner for social reform, the man who taught a generation to see, finds himself stumbling blindly in the wake of a terrible grief: the madness and death of a young woman he once loved.Following Ruskin from candlelit séances in country houses to the dazzling palazzos of Venice to the rainswept hills of the Lake District, Victoria MacKenzie captures the exquisite anguish of a man who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his work, and yet whose attempts at intimacy were hopelessly thwarted. Beautiful, haunting and heartbreaking, Each Leaf, Each Curve of Stem is an unforgettable portrait of longing, madness, grief – and the redemptions of art and the natural world.__________________________Praise for For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain: ‘A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart’ MAX PORTER‘Electrifying ... A pocket epic’ GUARDIAN‘The best first novel I’ve read in years’ RODDY DOYLE‘It illuminates like a shaft of sunlight’ IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR