Immaculate

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 392 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Signed by Author

Publishers Description: Winner of the prestigious The Australian/Vogels Literary Award. Tragic and moving. HSU-MING TEO, previous winner of The Australian/Vogels Award All Frances wants is a cure for her daughter, but that would take a miracle, and miracles arent something Frances believes in anymore. Newly divorced from her pastor ex-husband and excommunicated from the church community she once worked within, she wrestles alone with the prognosis of her terminally ill child. Any suggestion of divine intervention is salt in the wound of her grief. So when Frances is forced to take in a homeless and pregnant teenage girl who claims to have had an immaculate conception, shes deeply challenged. But sixteen-year-old Mary is not who she seems, and soon opens the door to perspectives that profoundly shift Francess sense of reality, triggering a chain of astonishing events. It seems that where there is the greatest suffering lies an unexpected magic. Frances begins to hold hope for her familys future, but the miracle prayed for is not always the one received. Immaculate is a provocative and tender exploration of loss, identity and healing, and the secret worlds we hide within in order to survive.

ISBN: 9781761067990