On the Nightstand: The Great Magdalens

Talk about being led into temptation! A couple of publishers had big sales in the past couple of weeks and, well, what’s a girl to do? Yes, these eight books are all now on my nightstand.

I’ll be starting with The Great Magdalens: Famous Women Who Returned to God after Lives of Sin. The table of contents shows predictable women (St. Margaret of Cortona, whose family refused to take her and her child in after her longtime lover died), and some surprises (Madame de Pompadour, the chief mistress of France’s King Louis XV).

As a woman whose life had some serious sin before rediscovering the Lord, I’m looking forward to these true stories of reversion!

By Melanie

Melanie Rigney is the author of Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century and other Catholic books. She is a contributor to Living Faith and other Catholic blogs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Melanie also owns Editor for You, a publishing consultancy that since 2003 has helped hundreds of writers, publishers, and agents.

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