DarkWinter Press New Release: The Book of Maggie by Stephanie Wyeld!

DarkWinter Press is excited to announce our latest release, the compelling debut novel The Book of Maggie by Stephanie Wyeld, available now on Amazon in paperback and e-version for Kindle. You can buy it here!

About The Book of Maggie:

"My name is Mary Magdalene, and apparently, I’m named after a whore, so everyone calls me Maggie. This is the story of my life."

The Book of Maggie is an unapologetic examination of the damaging patriarchy within the fundamentalist Christian church, told through the voice of Maggie, a girl finding herself in the middle of it all. She tries to be perfect, as perfect as her sister, as perfect as her father tells her to be, but failure seems to follow her all her life. With a nod to the deletion of the Mary Magdalene recently found by scholars in the oldest existing biblical text, The Book of Maggie is the story of the coming-of-age of one woman, living in recent times, who does her best to be what the men in her fundamentalist Christian family want her to be.

Can she escape or will she disappear, too?

Advance Praise for The Book of Maggie:

"The Book of Maggie is a captivating, finely-formed novel of vividness, lucidity, and passion. The reader follows Maggie, the first-person narrator, from childhood as a pastor's daughter in a small Ontario town, on an uncertain and poignant path of discovery towards personhood, and womanhood. On this journey, the fundamentalist Christian community of Maggie's town is illuminated; patriarchal structures at its heart bring devastation to her family. This family is one you'll want to meet and will come to care for, each of its members lovingly and carefully brought to life by Stephanie Wyeld, in this profoundly rendered, and profound, story."

—Dawn Promislow, author of Wan

"From the first page to the gut-wrenching final sentences, Stephanie Wyeld’s voice imbues The Book of Maggie with wit, humour, and an ironic sense of what is wrong even when Maggie’s Christian fundamentalist world appears to make perfect sense. 

-Ed Seaward, author of Fair"

"Stephanie Wyeld’s The Book of Maggie had me from its fearless, wry and morbidly funny opening pages. Maggie’s voice is wonderfully idiosyncratic and her critiques of the

fundamentalist church she grew up in will resonate with anyone trying to navigate the world we’re all currently trying to steer ourselves through. A thoughtful and striking debut that will both delight and affect you."

-Danila Botha, author of A Place of People Like Us and Things that Cause Inappropriate

Happiness

"Stephanie Wyeld’s witty prose lulls you into a comfortable embrace while she unapologetically shreds to pieces one of the world’s oldest institutions."

-Cassie Cao, Actor, Comedian, TV Writer 

About Stephanie Wyeld:

Stephanie Wyeld grew up in various fundamentalist churches. She started thinking for herself as an adult but the Christian guilt still creeps in every now and again. She has a couple of degrees, one in science and one in engineering, and lives with her family in Toronto. She is a past writer-in-residence at Heliconian Club.