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    The Priest's Madonna
    The Priest's Madonna
    The Priest's Madonna
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Priest's Madonna

    Written by Amy Hassinger

    Narrated by Anna Fields

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    About this audiobook

    For fans of The Birth of Venus, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and The Other Boleyn Girl, Amy Hassinger, author of Nina: Adolescence, delivers this historically lush, lyrical and thoroughly enthralling novel about the forbidden love between a woman and a holy man, and about the moral and spiritual struggles of faith. In 1896, the priest in a small village in southern France suddenly came into possession of immense wealth. This much is true. What no one knows for sure is where his money came from. The history of the region suggests that he may have stumbled upon clues to a hidden treasure of the Knights Templar. An even more tantalizing possibility is that he discovered coded documents hidden in the structure of his church, documents so threatening to the Catholic Church that he was paid to keep silent. At his death under mysterious circumstances in 1917, his secrets died with him. Yet there is one other person who may have known all--Marie Dernanaud, the priest’s housekeeper and, some say, his lover. Interweaving the history of France at the turn of the twentieth century, scenes of ancient Judea, and the romantic and religious journey of a spirited and intense heroine, The Priest’s Madonna gives Marie a chance to tell her version of what transpired—as well as her own story of belief, doubt, and illicit passions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateApr 5, 2024
    ISBN9781593163471
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    • 4/5
      This book is really quite thought-provoking, with just enough mystery to the story line to keep the plot moving along. It is not a "bodice-ripper," although the cover might suggest otherwise. The book explores various relationships and types of love--the various familial relationships as well as those of lovers and friends. Nothing much more than a few intense kisses are described in detail. Questions of spirituality, belief, church vs. state, Catholic and Jewish doctrines, gnosticism, atheism, and death and afterlife are the main focus of the book. And the notable subplot of the book, and the secondary narrative, investigates Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus (both as man and god), and the possibility of their female child being smuggled away to Gaul and continued Jesus's bloodline (a la [Dan Brown]). I did find the ending a little disappointing, however.The audio version deserves special mention--the reading was wonderfully characterized and the French pronounciation is beautiful.