Mr Wroe's Virgins

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Rogers, who has four previously published novels, tells her tale in the voices of four of the seven women. I don't want to spoil the book by giving too much away, but it was a great read, beautifully written and intensely original.

escape any censure from their fellows, but they are also gaining, through their generous gift to the prophet, credit in their account books in the sky.Wroe's Virgins, which was a New York Times Notable Book and was dramatized as a BBC television serial, which aired on the Sundance Channel last winter.

Over the course of the next four decades, humanity would deploy an envoy to the neutral Armistice Station to meet with a Cylon envoy on each anniversary of the treaty's signing. She intended her ambitious, impressive book to take the place of the missing record, with alternating entries from four of the seven virgins, each of whom represents a different world view. Joanna becomes the leader of the little band of women, and would have been the obvious choice even if she hadn't gravitated to that role.But it still doesn't happen the way you expect, and not all the characters react the way you'd expect either. They intended to build a wall around the town with four gateways, and although the wall was never constructed, the four gatehouses were, as was a printing press.