Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel

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In this compelling historical novel, in paperback for the first time, an Irish woman struggles between the old Druid ways and the rising tide of Christianity. A sixth-century Irish nun named Gwynneve secretly records the memories of her pagan youth. She writes of her village, of her fiercely independent mother, and of her Druid teacher. When the monastery is rent by vague and fantastic accusations, Gwynneve's words become the one force that can save her from annihilation.

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"- "As a slant of sunlight illuminates jewels long buried in a crypt, Kate Horsley's novel brings words to an ancient silence and a living, vivid presence to people who lived in that time of great changes and estrangements we call the Dark Ages." - Ursula K. LeGuin - "The poetry of Horsley's language is stunning, her feel for the natural world exquisite. In Gwynneve she has created a woman of extraordinary depth and complexity. Though this is a work of fiction, I kept feeling that I had stumbled upon an ancient text hidden in some back room of the Vatican library or a stack of vellum found in some Irish crypt." - Margot Adler, author of Drawing Down the Moon

Author Bio

Kate Horsley lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and teaches creative writing at Central New Mexico Community College. A poet as well as a novelist, Horsley has a PhD in American Studies and has published five novels. Her book A Killing in a New Town was the winner of the 1996 Western States Book Award for Fiction.