AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021'Seductive...Gorgeous'The Times'Gives voice to one of fiction's most conspicuously absent women'iWord has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too,broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen.Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open,she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled What has happened to Kent,her oldest friend And what will become of her now To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice - one upon which her destiny rests.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781838852849Number of pages: 368Weight: 246 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mmEdition: Main
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Poetic...Distinctive and compelling...Thorp's poignant and surprising narrative allows a character absent from the original play to obtain her long overdue agencySeductive...GorgeousGorgeously written...artful and moving...a beautiful triumphThorp's vivid debut novel gives voice to one of fiction's most conspicuously absent women...Lyrical...Thorp's distinctive style is heady and evocative...Learwife slots into a strong alternative canon of feminist retellings of classic storiesOriginal,intriguing...Thorp's novel is beautifully written in rich,imaginative prose
The wife of King Lear is given a powerful voice in this haunting narrative of her life...The writing in this novel is pitch-perfect: lyrical,imaginative and there to savour...Fascinating and heart-wrenching
This vivid reimagining of King Lear's wife shows Shakespearean scholars what they are missing...An original and highly accomplished debut that reimagines the life of a woman written out of literary history...A fresh perspective on an age-old tale...With Learwife,Thorp also joins the ranks of authors such as Pat Barker,Natalie Haynes and Madeline Miller,who have in recent times successfully depicted female characters omitted from myth and literary history...Thorp is a stylish writer,who blends old and new worlds in prose that is elegant,rhythmic and innovativeThorp's prose is sweepingly lyrical; studded with jewels,wrapped in rich fabrics,blooming with resonant images: light of all sorts - sun,moon,torches,conflagration; the changing face of water. She finds mystery in the everyday,locates the poison that lurks withinTells the story of King Lear's wife in a blistering reimagination...A must for fans of Margaret Atwood,Sarah Waters,Pat Barker and Natalie HaynesThe chronicle of love,rage and grief that Shakespeare never wrote
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