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  • Published: 1 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099484189
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Christ the Lord The Road to Cana




The second part in Anne Rice's vivid and hugely ambitious life of Christ the Lord

'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes

'[Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon

Herod Antipas rules Galilee, Pontius Pilate is the new Roman governor of Judea, and the Roman Empire rules the world. These are turbulent times for Israel, a troubled land of turmoil and insurrection.

Now in his thirtieth year, Jesus and his tight-knit family endure a long, dusty winter of disruption and chaos. Whispers of his virgin birth still persist, and while he struggles with the demands of his family and the weight of his great destiny, those around him wait for some sign of the path he will take.

But this quiet man of Nazareth is instead called upon to found a ministry which will utterly transform an unsuspecting world ...

  • Published: 1 April 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099484189
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Anne Rice

Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

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Praise for Christ the Lord The Road to Cana

Vibrant and convincing ... as timely as it is profound

Daily Mail

Genuinely stirring

New York Times