After Mary [Paperback]

Katherine McMahon (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 375 pages
• Publisher: Flamingo (June 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0006551556
• ISBN-13: 978-0006551553
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,590,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katharine McMahon is the author of seven novels, including the British Book Awards short-listed The Rose of Sebastopol. She was a student of English and Drama and has always combined performing in local theatre with teaching and writing. She's convinced that her knowledge of theatre seeps into her writing, so that she tends to view chapters rather as scenes.

She has two daughters and a son, and lives with her family in Hertfordshire.

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4.0 out of 5 stars After Mary, August 16, 2010

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This review is from: After Mary (Paperback)

Set in seventeenth-century England and Europe. There are not that many choices for women, marriage or entering a convent were top of a very short list. Isabella Stanhope wants a 'different' kind of life.

Isabella, a young upper class catholic woman, betrothed to a second cousin, with a future which seems set. Circumstances change as she becomes involved in dangerou religious activities and political ingrigue.

After the failure of the gunpowder plot, Isabella follows Mary Ward into a new religious order, and experiences an ongoing battle with the Catholic Church towards new forms of religious life for women. That being, an order that is not enclosed and follows the Jesuit principles.

Rich in historical details, a strong narrative, and fully formed characters this novel is hard to put down.