The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: The Continuing Adventures of Judith Shakespeare – Stellar Historical Fiction: A Woman Fleeing Witchcraft, War, and Loss - Couverture rigide

Tiffany, Grace

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ISBN 10 : 0063380536 ISBN 13 : 9780063380530

Editeur : Harper, 2025

Synopsis

“Stellar historical fiction imbued with a rich sense of place.”—New York Times Book Review

"Witty, resilient, and fiercely intelligent, Judith emerges as a heroine for the ages. Her journey, rich in historical authenticity and imaginative storytelling, offers insights that resonate across the centuries."—Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles

For readers of Hilary Mantel and Madeline Miller, a deeply engrossing work of biographical historical fiction—a tale about a woman of the Shakespeare family struggling to manage both her private grief and public danger.  

At the age of sixty-one, Judith Shakespeare, a midwife-apothecary and twin of the long-dead Hamnet, must flee provincial Stratford on horseback to avoid arrest for witchcraft. Her traveling companions are a zealous Puritan woman and child who have been displaced by civil war—the bloody seventeenth-century strife between Royalists and Roundheads. Judith is also leaving her marriage, which has foundered since the wrenching loss of two adult sons to the plague.

The sequel to the author’s My Father Had a Daughter, a tale of Judith in her youth, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter revisits this character for the ages—Shakespeare’s sharp-tongued, witty youngest child, no less feisty in her maturity. Four-hundred years after Judith’s death, Grace Tiffany brings her back onto center stage. Judith’s latest tale offers profound insights—into friendship, motherhood, marriage, religious extremism, and war—which remain resoundingly true today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Grace Tiffany is a professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Western Michigan University, an editor of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, a translator of Jorge Luís Borges’ writings on Shakespeare, and the author of six other novels, including My Father Had a Daughter, a predecessor to The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0063380536
• ISBN 13: 9780063380530
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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