Gormley gives readers a Mary who will seem familiar to teens, full of pride and passion, hopeful yet hesitant. She sets her heroine against a remarkably well-detailed first-century milieu that captures everyday details and also makes strong statements about the place of a woman in that society.3/5(6). This story begins with Mariamne, a vulnerable girl who knows little of the ways of the world. Much as she wants to be in control of her own destiny, she soon learns she has no such power. Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene. Beatrice Gormley. Random House Children's Books, 2/5(3). The website maintained by Beatrice Gormley, author of "John McCain," "Amelia Earhart," and "Pope Francis" Beatrice Gormley Poisoned Honey. A novel of Mary Magdalene. Adara. One moment Adara is a landowner's privileged daughter; the next, she's a slave in a foreign noble's palace.
Poisoned Honey is the tale of a woman many of us know as Mary Magdalene. Very little is known about her, though much is speculated, and Beatrice Gormley is here to tell us, in her wonderfully straightforward prose, what she imagines Mary Magdalene's life to have been like. When I first read the summary for this book I was quite intrigued. While not quite as good as her novel Salome, Beatrice Gormley offers a deep and at times disturbing speculation of Mary Magdalene's life before she became a follower of Jesus. In Donna Jo Napoli's Song of The Magdalene (also wonderful) Mary Magdalene's demons take the form of epilepsy, and in this novel they resemble schizophrenia. Beatrice Gormley: Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene: Mary Pope Osborne: Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No. 1) (Book CD) '' Mary Pope Osborne: Magic Tree House #2: The Knight at Dawn Book CD Set '' Dennis R. Shealy: Heroes United!/Attack of the Robot Super.
Beatrice is currently writing a historical novel for kids. Personal life. Beatrice and her husband Robert, an editor, live in Massachusetts. They have two daughters together named Katie and Jenny. Books by Beatrice Gormley. Poisoned Honey, A Story of Mary Magdalene, Knopf, This story begins with Mariamne, a vulnerable girl who knows little of the ways of the world. Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene. Beatrice Gormley. In this follow-up to her novel, Salome, Gormley gives readers the story of Mary www.doorway.ruing in an author’s note that there’s no biblical evidence that Mary was a prostitute, the author presents her instead as a bright, imaginative child forced into marriage with an elderly man whose family despises her.
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