Edeana Malcolm The Book of Elisheva Elisheva is consumed by anger for those who have beheaded her only son. When her best friend’s son begins preaching a radical new message of love and inclusion, Elisheva feels compelled to follow him, all the way to Jerusalem and his death on the cross. Edeana Malcolm is the president of Victoria Writers’ Society, where she is also part of a novel critique group. She has published several historical novels based on the lives of her ancestors, John and Susan Dean, as well as another novel based on the life of a four times great-grandfather, Michael Eisan.