Review:
'Urquhart gets into the very heart of the Shakers' history in this debut novel, and it's fascinating' Kate Saunders, The Times
'A fresh batch of debut fiction introduces heroines and an anti-heroine with impressive abilities and memorable flaws. None is as powerful as Polly Kimball, a 19th-century New Englander ... Part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, The Visionist probes questions of faith and fear while deftly illuminating Shakerism' --Observer
'Rachel Urquhart writes with precision and beauty' --Sunday Times
'Utterly brilliant' --Lucy Mangan
'Fascinating ... An unexpected coming of age story, a suspenseful mystery' --Eowyn Ivey, author of the bestseller The Snow Child
'Transfixing ... Urquhart has created a world rich in detail and vibrant in its historical dimensions ... Like Marilynne Robinson's Gilead... The Visionist aspires to illuminate our understanding of faith, resilience, shame and forgiveness' --New York Times Book Review
'A daring novel of secrets, revelations and redemption ... engrossing ... compelling' --O Magazine
'A literary achievement one might expect from a writer with an extensive backlist of published works' --New York Journal of Books
'Shatteringly original ... so rich, so detailed, that you not only come to care for all the characters deeply, you also become so immersed in the world of the Shakers ... Part mystery and part thriller ... wise and haunting ... provocative, passionate and profoundly redemptive' --San Francisco Chronicle
'Like Nathaniel Hawthorne's haunted novels, The Visionist tests a community's faith and devotion as expertly mounted, suspenseful threats grow ... The Visionist will have you holding your breath until the final, magnificent revelation' --ShelfAwareness
'There are characters with crosses to bear and scruffy villains straight out of Dickens. The Visionist reads in parts like a Victorian thriller ... In a painstakingly researched novel framed by a suspenseful plot, Urquhart gives the reader an intriguing glimpse behind these doors' --Wall Street Journal
About the Author:
Rachel Urquhart is a former writer at Spy, Vogue, and Allure magazines. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Tin House, Elle, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, and Vanity Fair. She received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.
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