"Oscar" wrote a review of Anne Rice's book about Jesus a few months back on our "Just for Fun" page:
http://www.newdaynews.com/fun/index.cgi/read/1054
If you look on the back of our copy of Simply Christian, you'll see that Anne Rice has some very nice things to say about its author, N.T. Wright. Apparently, his historical work provided a lot of background material for her own fictional account of the childhood of Jesus.