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"A dazzling, unputdownable read...a deeply compelling narrative of dark secrets and intrigue." -- Scotland on Sunday
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Michele Roberts' ninth novel manipulates episodes from the lives of the 18th-century pioneer of women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft, and her contemporary, William Wordsworth. Both are known to have had secret affairs in Paris during the French Revolution, and Roberts uses these 'indiscretions' as the backbone for an historical romance with a feminist agenda.
She places her story in rural France in the early 1800s. Louise, a peasant woman, fearing she is about to die, summons her priest; she has a secret to confess. And so the novel begins. We are taken back to 1780, when Jemima Boote arrives at Mary Wollstonecraft's school in London. When Mary departs for revolutionary Paris, Jemima follows. Six months later, pregnant and defiantly in love, she retreats to a tiny village where she meets another mother-to-be, Annette, who is recovering from her infatuation with a young English poet, William. But it is Louise who emerges as the real heroine; the servant's rituals of food preparation and potato harvesting are described with a compelling poetic flair which illustrates that life cannot be lived by utopian principles alone. It is about the business of survival, and Roberts' empathy for the natural world is ingrained in every sentence she writes.--Lilian Pizzichini
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"A dazzling, unputdownable read...a deeply compelling narrative of dark secrets and intrigue." --Scotland on Sunday
"Michèle Roberts has written a memorable glowingfantasy, a deftly tapestried fable." --The Mail on Sunday (UK)
"Roberts is at her best when she writes about food and sex, about feelings and desires that cut across boundaries of time and class. A spirited and sensual novel." --The Sunday Times (London)
"Roberts makes wonderful play with notions of lineage and history...beautifully written." --Independent on Sunday
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0312420374
- ISBN 13 9780312420376
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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