Victoria Mackenzie - For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

Written by Victoria Mackenzie. Themes include Fiction, Historical, Medieval, Literary, Women.

Winner Of The Scottish Book Awards - First Book Of The Year
A Sunday Times, Guardian, Scotsman And Irish Times Book Of The Year

'A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' Max Porter
'Electrifying ... A pocket epic' Guardian

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent

In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in Norwich.

Before they part, Julian will entrust Margery with a secret - one that will change the course of history.

'You will read it in no time but be thinking about it for ages after' Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Guardian, Book of the day

'Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done' The Times, Book of the Month

'The best first novel I've read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing' Roddy Doyle

'A vibrant portrait of female courage' Observer

'A novel of rare brightness and clarity, concise and yet capacious: it illuminates like a shaft of sunlight' Imogen Hermes Gowar

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