Guinevere Glasfurd

The Words In My Hand

a novel of 17th century Amsterdam and a woman hidden from history

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Produktbeschreibung

A young servant girl desperate to learn. An ambitious philosopher in search of the truth. A woman's story lost from history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / Two Roads
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 500342
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9781473617872
• ISBN-10: 1473617871
• Artikelnr.: 46164979

Autorenporträt

Guinevere Glasfurd is a critically acclaimed novelist. Her debut novel, The Words in my Hand, was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa First Novel Award and Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and was longlisted in France for the Prix du Roman FNAC. Her second novel, The Year Without Summer, was written with support from the MacDowell Foundation, longlisted for the Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize 2021 and shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award 2020. Awarded grants from the Arts Council England and the British Council for her work, her writing has also appeared in The Scotsman , Mslexia and in a collection published by the National Galleries of Scotland. Originally from Lancaster, she now lives near Cambridge with her husband and daughter.

Rezensionen

Excellent... The novel is based on enigmatic references to Helena and her illegitimate child in biographies of Descartes - she is the unseen woman behind the great man. Glasfurd has created an entirely unsentimental love story, with a memorable and engaging heroine. She takes the narrowness of Helena's life and her kicks against its confines, and spins them into an original tale. The Times (Book of the Month)