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Learwife

Learwife

A Novel

by J. R. Thorp
Paperback
Publication Date: 10/01/2023
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Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history.

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2021

Word 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.

ISBN:
9781838852849
9781838852849
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10-01-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
368
Dimensions (mm):
197.99x129.01x22mm

'Seductive . . . Gorgeous'
- The Times

'Gives voice to one of fiction's most conspicuously absent women'
- i paper

'Tells the story of King Lear's wife in a blistering reimagination ... A must for fans of Margaret Atwood, Sarah Waters, Pat Barker and Natalie Haynes.'
- Irish Independent

J. R. Thorp

J.R. Thorp is a writer, lyricist and librettist. She won the London Short Story Award in 2011 and was shortlisted for the BBC Opening Lines Prize, and has had work published in the Cambridge Literary Review, Manchester Review, Antithesis, Wave Composition and elsewhere.

She wrote the libretto for the highly acclaimed modern opera Dear Marie Stopes and has had works commissioned by the Arts Council, the Wellcome Trust and St Paul's Cathedral. Born in Australia, she now lives in Cork, Ireland.

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