Virgin & Child

What happens when everything you know is thrown into doubt… and you’re the Pope? A genre-busting, gender-bending Vatican thriller. What happens when everything you know is thrown into doubt? And you’re the Pope? The recently elected Irish Pope Patrick has plans for his future Church. Then he is attacked in St Peter’s Square. Cardinals turn against him. Shocking revelations threaten his traditional status and his faith. In this novel where nothing is as it seems, Catholicism and modern morality are held in tension. Pope Patrick has to face challenges and make choices he could never have imagined. AUTHOR: London-based Maggie Hamand is a novelist, journalist, and non-fiction author. Maggie brings her acumen as a journalist and as founding publisher of acclaimed independent The Maia Press to the PR campaign for this book. Maggie is author of the Amazon best-selling Creative Writing For Dummies, and her first novel, The Resurrection of the Body, was published to critical acclaim and has been optioned for film and television.