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A Wild & True Relation Kim Sherwood

A Wild & True Relation von Kim Sherwood

A Wild & True Relation Kim Sherwood


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Zusammenfassung

A ground-breaking literary historical novel by the award-winning author of Testament and Double or Nothing, the new Bond series

A Wild & True Relation Zusammenfassung

A Wild & True Relation: A 'remarkable' (Hilary Mantel) feminist adventure story of smuggling and myth-making Kim Sherwood

'Enlivens the standard tale of swashbuckling adventure, adding feminist spice ... Rich and immersive' SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH

'Remarkable' HILARY MANTEL

'A vivid, narrative-packed splice of historical fiction' DAILY MAIL

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 and George Eliot to Daniel Defoe and Charles Dickens - who are transfixed by her myth and who, over three centuries, come together to solve the mystery of her life. With extraordinary verve , Sherwood remakes the eighteenth-century novel and illuminates women's writing and women's roles throughout history.

'Breathlessly swashbuckling' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Vividly imagined, relentlessly entertaining, rich and resonant in scope and context, it's both a thrilling adventure and a vital witness to women's voices' EMMA STONEX, author of The Lamplighters

'A young writer of immense talent' ANDREW MILLER

'A breathtaking feat of historical fiction and utterly astounding. It is wise, urgent and entirely compelling. I was bereft when it ended' WYL MENMUIR

'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 thrilling adventure novel' FIONA MOZLEY

A Wild & True Relation Bewertungen

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
Rich and immersive * Sunday Times *
Breathlessly swashbuckling ... both full-blooded historical fiction and thoughtful literary deconstruction, both elements immaculately researched. You can take pleasure in her punchy plotting and flamboyant nautical descriptions, plus the subversive Molly's complex navigation of those dual selves - with Orlando a clear nod to Woolf's similarly gender-bending novel * Daily Telegraph *
A gripping feminist adventure story * Cosmopolitan *
A thrilling adventure novel that richly evokes the sights, sounds and smells of Devon at the turn of the eighteenth century. Smugglers, pirates and some cameos from some well-known writers - what's not to like! It presents swashbuckling action alongside reflections on authorship, agency and the powerful question of who gets to write history -- Fiona Mozley, Booker shortlisted author of ELMET and HOT STEW
I loved this tremendous book and devoured it in two days. Vividly imagined, relentlessly entertaining, rich and resonant in scope and context, it's both a thrilling adventure and a vital witness to women's voices -- Emma Stonex, author of THE LAMPLIGHTERS
It is a breathtaking feat of historical fiction, and an utterly astounding novel. It is wise, urgent and entirely compelling. I was bereft when it ended. If it does not win every prize for fiction next year, I will be amazed. * Wyl Menmuir, author of The Draw of the Sea *
A blistering tale of early 18th-century love, betrayal, murder, and revenge, wrapped up in a novel of smuggling, piracy, shipbuilding, and a girl who is not as she seems. The prose is superb * Historical Novels Society *
Employing lusty couplings, a brooding hero and a tender young heroine, Sherwood plays knowingly with the romantic genre ... By both undermining and indulging the genre, it seems Sherwood is having her delicious contraband cake and eating it, too * Suzi Feay, Guardian *

Über Kim Sherwood

Kim Sherwood is an author and creative writing lecturer. Born in Camden in 1989, she has taught at the University of Sussex, UWE, and in schools, libraries and prisons, and now lectures at the University of Edinburgh, where she lives in the city. Her first novel, Testament, published in 2018, won the Bath Novel Award and the Harper's Bazaar Big Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. In 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Kim is currently writing a new trilogy of James Bond novels for the Ian Fleming Estate, expanding the universe with a cast of Double O agents for the 21st century. The first title, Double or Nothing will be published by HarperCollins in the UK and William Morrow in the US in September 2022. Her next literary novel, A Wild & True Relation will be published by Virago in February 2023.

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A Wild & True Relation: A 'remarkable' (Hilary Mantel) feminist adventure story of smuggling and myth-making Kim Sherwood
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Little, Brown Book Group
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