Prizewinning Jamie Quatro's highly anticipated and deeply intriguing debut novel will stun with its tender and unflinching story of marriage and infidelity, desire and faith.
'Bright and dark by turns but always shot through with a vital, unerring grace. Plus it's about love and death, sex and God. What more could a reader want?' Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
Maggie is entirely devoted to her husband Thomas, their two beautiful children, and to God.
Until what begins as innocent letter writing with married poet James starts to become something far more erotically charged, their meeting of minds threatening to become a meeting of bodies . . .
As everything Maggie believes in is thrown into doubt the reader is drawn ever deeper into the battleground of her soul.
Fire Sermon is a daring debut novel of obsession, desire and salvation that lays bare the radical light and dark of love itself. This marks the arrival of a major new talent.
'An exquisite and astonishing story of female desire, and one of the most haunting portraits of a marriage I've ever read.' Lily King, author of Euphoria
Jamie Quatro has taken one of the great themes - infidelity - and subjected it to her own exacting and poetic brand of scrutiny. At times painfully honest, always intensely felt,
Fire Sermon is a moving and gripping novel of the emotions.
