After Sappho - Selby Wynn Schwartz
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Joan Walker
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Literature
Longlisted for Booker Prize 2022, Its 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped herand who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it., 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted But she is sure she can sell a paintingand is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered., In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fullerand fuller., After Sappho is Selby Wynn Schwartzs joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives; for liberation and for justice. Sarah BernhardColetteEleanora DuseLina PolettiJosephine BakerVirginia Woolf these are just a few of the women (some famous, others hitherto
