About the book: How can you believe your own eyes when nothing feels real anymore?
It is 1983 Dundee, Scotland. Smart, lonely and raging with grief, Ella is done trying to fit in.
Caught up in the post-punk scene and on the verge of going off the rails, she is packed off to St Cecilia's, a convent boarding school to keep her out of harm's way.
But when her new classmates claim to have been visited by the Virgin Mary, Ella is drawn into a far darker world of chaos.
And who can tell what is fake and what is real?
From the immersive and beautifully rendered 80s setting to the timeless themes of belonging and identity, Visitation (2025) is a captivating exploration of loss, longing and difference.
About the author: Born and raised in Scotland, Carolyn Gillespie now lives and writes in the South of England. Winner of the Wells Festival of Literature Open Poetry Prize, she has written a collection of poems for children and is currently working on a middle grade novel. Her work has appeared in Molecule Tiny Lit Mag, The Crank, Oddity magazine, Coin Operated Press's Poetry zine and Scotland Outdoors. Shortlisted for the Soutar and Fish prizes. Carolyn was a panellist at the Guildford new Writers Festival where she read an extract from Pilgrim. She runs creative writing workshops in schools. Married, with three grown-up children, Carolyn (Kari) is hooked on long-distance walking. When she is not off a trek with the Sturdy Girls, she is fighting a losing battle to gain control of her unruly garden and Bernard, her rumbunctious pup.
Rating: 5/5
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