New Releases by Marina Warner

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.

Depicting a skating party on a frozen river in the Fens, this novel draws together fragments of myth, painting and tribal custom, to create a picture of people tragically at odds in their need for love and in their mastery of the ways to meet it.