The Wild Girl (later issued as The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene) is a 1984 novel by Michèle Roberts.
This work tells a fictional story about the discovery of an apocryphal fifth Gospel in Provence, France.
This gospel tells the tale of Jesus Christ and the period before his crucifixion, known as the Passion, from the perspective of Mary Magdalene.
[1] The story incorporates elements of a Gnostic tradition that speak of a sexual relationship between Jesus and Mary.
"[4] Some feminist critics of the work have panned the romantic interaction between Mary and Jesus, with Patricia Duncker calling it laughable.