Little World: Josephine Rowe in conversation with Emily Maguire

Celebrated authors Emily Maguire and Josephine Rowe come together to discuss their new novels of faith, fate and the nature of belief.

Inspired by the legend of Pope Joan, Maguire’s Rapture is the story of a young woman who defies gendered expectations and enters the monastic life by disguising herself as a man. Rowe’s Little World opens with the body of a child saint stranded in the Australian bush, and goes on to weave a mesmerising story of the lives she touches across time and continents.

Together, they discuss the mundane, the miraculous and writing the ineffable, with Jaclyn Crupi.