The Art of Standing Still - Penny Culliford
Book Cover: " Ancient stories bring a community together. Secrets threaten to tear them apart. One journalist has the power to expose it all. Nothing much ever happens in Monksford. Still, Jemma Durham, an ambitious young reporter, dreams of the story that will take her from covering cow pat throwing contests at the Monksford Gazette to working for a prestigious national newspaper. Then the town revives the tradition of the medieval mystery plays performed across England hundreds of years ago, and life in Monksford turns decidedly more interesting. With the town caught up in the compelling and ancient plays, Jemma goes undercover, taking the role of Mary Magdalene to record the experience for the Gazette. As Jemma begins to uncover some of the town's secrets, she stumbles upon her big story the one that could be her ticket out of Monksford. But writing that story would mean betraying friendships and destroying careers. When Jemma begins to feel herself falling i...