The Priest's Wife

A vividly imagined journey through an alternative Celtic reality which skilfully combines an intriguing narrative with lyrical description and spiritual depth.

-Maggie Hamand

Suspenseful and engaging. A thoroughly good read that challenges the assumptions that hold us back.

-Isabel Clarke

A strong woman in very difficult circumstances finds her place and power within a very patriarchal society... The characters in the book are described with a nuance that moves the reader beyond good and bad and allows a common humanity to be seen, even in 'villains.' We loved it!

-Cornelia Featherstone

I was captivated by the characters, the landscape, the Celtic spirituality and the thought-provoking situations [the author] portrays... When I finished The Seaborne I could not imagine that I would be equally engrossed by The Priest's Wife but it is also a riveting read. There are some similarities to be drawn with our present troubled and confused times and much food for thought. I look forward with great anticipation to the third book in the series.

-Ann Barr

Morag is magnificent! The Priest's Wife was all that I had hoped for, and more. The isle and the island-life of the community of people so beautifully imagined by A G Rivett in The Seaborne continues to draw me in.

-Shirley Barr

A tour de force! Poignant and sensitively told, A G Rivett's wide vision and inherent knowing give birth to a book that expresses deep truth about the significance of our times. A book to encourage those who teeter on the brink of claiming their place within the whole. 

-Romany Buck

This novel evokes a profound sense of the beauty of place and the community bound to that place. The reader is drawn in and, in a way, joins the characters on their journey. If the setting is a putative thousand years in the past, the underlying themes are contemporary. Modern counter-cultural aspirations run alongside the question of the relationship of religion and society, of evangelisation and enculturation. The Priest’s Wife allows the reader space to meditate on these and other themes, without forcing conclusions. A welcome addition to Christian fantasy literature, in which it easily holds its own.

-Bro Daniel, OSB, Pluscarden Benedictines magazine, 2 Sept 2023

The Priest’s Wife is another beautiful and sensitively-written narrative by A.G. Rivett. Imbuedwith the author’s love of nature and its wild and elemental forces that shape and govern Island life and its spirituality, it makes for compelling reading and leaves the reader impatient for more. This book will strike a resonant chord with modern-feminist readers and, in a post-Christian society, those interested in alternative ancient faith traditions.

-Benedict Thwaite, 3 Sept 2023

The Priest's Wife is the second book of the Isle Fincara Trilogy. A new third edition of the first book, The Seaborne, will also be made available on NetGalley for interested readers. NetGalley exposure is part of a publicity campaign with a publicist approaching magazine and newspaper reviewers and bloggers. Social media is on A G Rivett's Facebook author page and WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/BRYN.GLAS.BOOKS/ and WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/BRYNGLASBOOKS