Being Magdalene
Author: Beale, Fleur
ISBN: 9781775537670
Publisher: RHNZ CHILDRENS
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The gripping sequel to the award-winning and bestselling YA novels I am not Esther and I am Rebecca.
The gripping sequel to the award-winning and bestselling YA novels I am not Esther and I am Rebecca.
In this breathtaking follow-up to I am not Esther and I am Rebecca, Fleur Beale revisits the Pilgrim family and its closed religious community, The Children of the Faith.
Four years have passed since Rebecca ran away. The community simmers with tension and rumours of an approaching split, and life has become terrifying for Rebecca's remaining siblings as Elder Stephen seizes any chance to take revenge on them. Twelve-year-old Magdalene lives in fear that her strong-willed little sister, Zillah, will be his next target.
The girls have run out of people who can protect them. To Zillah their path is clear but Magdalene is torn. How can she cause more hurt and shame for her parents? But, equally, how can she face a life with no freedom to be herself?
And another question scares her most of all. Without the elders' suffocating rules that tell her how to live, who would Magdalene be?
ISBN: 9781775537670
Publisher: RHNZ CHILDRENS
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The gripping sequel to the award-winning and bestselling YA novels I am not Esther and I am Rebecca.
The gripping sequel to the award-winning and bestselling YA novels I am not Esther and I am Rebecca.
In this breathtaking follow-up to I am not Esther and I am Rebecca, Fleur Beale revisits the Pilgrim family and its closed religious community, The Children of the Faith.
Four years have passed since Rebecca ran away. The community simmers with tension and rumours of an approaching split, and life has become terrifying for Rebecca's remaining siblings as Elder Stephen seizes any chance to take revenge on them. Twelve-year-old Magdalene lives in fear that her strong-willed little sister, Zillah, will be his next target.
The girls have run out of people who can protect them. To Zillah their path is clear but Magdalene is torn. How can she cause more hurt and shame for her parents? But, equally, how can she face a life with no freedom to be herself?
And another question scares her most of all. Without the elders' suffocating rules that tell her how to live, who would Magdalene be?
