A startlingly original, haunting and memorable novel which takes stories from the Bible and reimagines them from another point of view
Eve, banished from Eden, gives birth to Cain and Abel and then watches with devastation as one brother murders another and both are lost to her; the Pharaoh's daughter, unable to have a child and convinced her divinity has rendered her cursed, takes Moses from the rushes to raise as her own and then loses him when he exacts his revenge on Egypt for their treatment of the Apiru of Goshen; and Claudia Procula, the wife of Pontius Pilot, faces both her own capacity for rage and her husband's unrelentingly stubborn self belief when he ignores her warnings of the danger of his impending decision at court . . .
