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  • The Australian Women's Weekly

    THE Reading room

    Apr 22, 2020 2 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    Historical fiction

    The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd, Tinder Press

    “I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus.” This is the arresting opening to Sue Monk Kidd’s new novel, an intriguing tale offering a feminist perspective on the life. “The fragment later turned out to be a forgery, but that was irrelevant to the creative storm the article set off in me. It occurred to me that if this wife had really existed, she would be the most silenced woman in history.”

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