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'This book is a rarity - a novel as remarkable for the vigour of the storytelling as for its literary ambition. Kim Sherwood is a writer of capacity, potency and sophistication' HILARY MANTEL

A Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to the Revenue. Leaving Grace's cottage in flames, he takes her orphaned daughter Molly on board ship disguised as a boy to join his crew. But Molly, or Orlando as she must call herself, will grow up to outshine all the men of Tom's company and seek revenge - and a legacy - all of her own.

Woven into Molly's story are the writers - from Celia Fiennes to Hester Thrale to George Eliot - who are transfixed by her myth and who, over three centuries, come together to solve the mystery of her life. With extraordinary verve and chutzpah, Sherwood remakes the eighteenth-century Heroical novel and challenges women's writing and women's roles throughout history.

Book details

• Full title: Wildego
• Subtitle: Or, A True Relation
• Author: KIM SHERWOOD
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• EAN: 9780349015392
• ISBN: 0349015392
• ID: 33407530
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 41 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 126 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. January 2024

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