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Victoria Mackenzie is a Scottish writer. She was awarded a Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer from Moniack Mhor in 2015 and a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2016. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing and a PhD in English Literature, both from the University of St Andrews, and she teaches creative writing.
Mackenzie’s debut novel For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain has received rapturous acclaim from reviewers, described as ‘miraculous’ in the Times and ‘electrifying’ in The Guardian. It tells the story of two medieval women - Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe - and their struggle with faith and family.
Margery is a pilgrim who has left her husband and son behind in order to do pilgrimage. Her profoundly personal relationship with Christ has left her vulnerable to accusations of heresy. Her meeting with Julian, an anchoress who has submitted to confinement in a cell in Norwich, will transform both women.
She will join the author and LJC tutor Aidan Cottrell Boyce for an evening of conversation about literature, history, faith and identity.
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Aidan is a tutor in Social and Environmental Justice stream. He completed his PhD at the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge in 2018. During his doctoral studies he ran as a Parliamentary candidate for the Green Party. He is the author of two academic books: Jewish Christians in Puritan England (2020) and Israelism in Modern Britain (2021). Between 2020 and 2022 he worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at St Mary's University in London.
