Pamella Bowen Bücher

The Blindness of Odile is set in Cambridge, England, back in 1970 when there were still shillings but not yet mobile phones. Ambitious American grad student Odile Travers stumbles over the English language and English ways, trying to look cool and in charge, until her pride causes a fall into near-death and new life. Aided by a cast of lovable misfits, including a nice nun, a mean monk, and a ginger-haired barman, Odile lets go of striving and surrenders to love in its many forms.

If you had been Jesus' friend and disciple, Mary Magdalene, how would you have felt and acted toward him? In Magdalena's Demons, author Pamella Bowen speculates that Mary (who insists on calling herself Magdalena) would have loved him, learned from him, followed him, and married him. How these facts and the birth of their child affected Jesus' male disciples forms the plot of this adventure fantasy, traversing the ancient world from Galilee to Glastonbury during the divisive years of early Christianity. A cast of lovable characters and some magical elements convey themes of freedom, female empowerment, and letting go.