Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire (37 page)

"May creates a portrait of an intriguing woman.... Like Anita Diamant's Old Testament blockbuster
The Red Tent
,
Pilate's Wife
makes the female experience of past millennia exotic yet universal.... May effectively captures how the values of the Romans differed from ours."

--USA Today

"May's fiction debut is a fresh and vivid retelling of a well-known story comparable in scope to Elizabeth Cunningham's
The Passion of Mary Magdalen
. One hopes this is the first of many novels by this excellent author."

--School Library Journal
(starred review)

"A great and insightful drama of one woman's love life."

--Cairns Sun
(Australia)

"May's background in psychic phenomena and biography makes her heroine sympathetic.... [Her] vivid settings, founded in research, make this quick read of a romantic adventure enjoyable."

--Kirkus Reviews

"[May has] fleshed out a few scraps of Coptic legend to create a breathy romance about Pilate's wife."

--Washington Post

"Biographer and journalist May (
Adventures of a Psychic
) turns to fiction to offer a privileged woman's view of religion, spirituality, sex, and marriage in the time of Christ."

--Publishers Weekly

"The clothes, the food, the entertainment, the tortures and executions, the rituals inside the temples of Isis--there are dozens of fascinating details in Antoinette May's new novel about the Roman Empire at the time of Christ.... May allows Claudia to tell her own story. Claudia's life is shaped by passion, violence, and intrigue, and May paints it well."

--Deseret Morning News
(Utah)

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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

PILATE'S WIFE
. Copyright (c) 2006 by Antoinette May. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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