It's clear from the beginning: one might long for escape from this narrative, might opt for a bloody end rather than endure more misery. House of Anansi, 2016 "No one but a fool could look so happy in a miserable house, could they? The mice here probably throw
You might not guess from the cover of this debut novel that the epigraph would be drawn from Olympe de Gouges' "Declaration of the Rights of Women". Demeter Press, 2013 But one can be dressed in satin and lace and be a revolutionary, of course. As was Olympe
See L=Locale below for clues for these images Pauline Holdstock's Into the Heart of the Country Harper Collins, 2011 In 1693, an English man named Henry Kelsey wrote a poem about journeying into the heart of this country: “Then up ye River I with heavy heart Did take
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