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Aristotle has never been able to resist a keen mind in another, even in his own daughter, Pythias - a young girl who should be content with the kitchen, the loom and a future of childbearing. But she is really smart, able to best his own students in debate; is she a freak or a harbinger of what women can really achieve? Whichever is the case, hers is a privileged position, a woman who moves in a man's world, protected by the reputation of her philosopher father. Yet her entire life is set to change when Aristotle dies, leaving his daughter to discover that the world is a place not of logic but one of superstition, and that a girl can be preyed upon by gods and goddesses as much as by grown men and women...
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The Sweet Girl is a remarkable novel, not just a pleasure to read but also a book that I expect to reread several times. --Jeet Heer, The National Post
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle's bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human. --Marina Endicott, author of The Little Shadows and Good to a Fault
Annabel Lyon is a wonderful writer, adept at breathing life into the ancient past. She reanimates near-mythical characters until we feel we know them intimately--their dreams and desires, their brilliance and their failings--which is an achievement only the finest historical novelists can aspire to. I loved The Golden Mean, and to return to the world of Aristotle and Alexander in The Sweet Girl is a rare pleasure. --Jane Johnson, author of The Tenth Gift, The Salt Road and The Sultan's Wife
Lyon shows with chilling precision just how quickly a life can unravel... She makes one thing devastatingly clear: in Pytho's world there's no such thing as freedom for women... Many reviewers of [Lyon's previous novel] commented upon the risks of attempting a first novel from Aristotle's perspective. But creating Pytho took no less boldness. --Madeline Miller, Guardian
Intense, impressionistic and mysterious... This novel thrills in its immediacy and the family at its heart, in their love for each other, are instantly, captivatingly real --Daily Mail
Lyon is an extremely skilled historical novelist... She conjures a cruel, superstitious society in all its visceral otherness. --Financial Times
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The Sweet Girl is a remarkable novel, not just a pleasure to read but also a book that I expect to reread several times. --Jeet Heer, The National Post
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle's bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human. --Marina Endicott, author of The Little Shadows and Good to a Fault
Annabel Lyon is a wonderful writer, adept at breathing life into the ancient past. She reanimates near-mythical characters until we feel we know them intimately--their dreams and desires, their brilliance and their failings--which is an achievement only the finest historical novelists can aspire to. I loved The Golden Mean, and to return to the world of Aristotle and Alexander in The Sweet Girl is a rare pleasure. --Jane Johnson, author of The Tenth Gift, The Salt Road and The Sultan's Wife
Lyon shows with chilling precision just how quickly a life can unravel... She makes one thing devastatingly clear: in Pytho's world there's no such thing as freedom for women... Many reviewers of [Lyon's previous novel] commented upon the risks of attempting a first novel from Aristotle's perspective. But creating Pytho took no less boldness. --Madeline Miller, Guardian
Intense, impressionistic and mysterious... This novel thrills in its immediacy and the family at its heart, in their love for each other, are instantly, captivatingly real --Daily Mail
Lyon is an extremely skilled historical novelist... She conjures a cruel, superstitious society in all its visceral otherness. --Financial Times
Annabel Lyon is the author of two short story collections, Oxygen, and The Best Thing for You. She lives in British Columbia with her husband and two children. In 2009, she won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for her novel, The Golden Mean.
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 085789952X
- ISBN 13 9780857899521
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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