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Bear Woman

By Karolina Ramqvist

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Bear Woman

By Karolina Ramqvist

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For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors A beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood, marriage and life. While struggling with the demands of family and career, the writer discovers a figure from history, Marguerite de la Rocque, a sixteenth-century noblewoman who was abandoned, pregnant, on a remote island in Nova Scotia. When she is finally rescued, her lover and her baby have died, but she has survived this inhospitable wilderness, alone, for two long years. It's a remarkable story of survival, but one that has been consigned to a footnote. Delving deeper into Marguerite's hidden life, the writer begins to question her ability to tell this story, the story of any women in history - or even her own. 'The deeply personal journey of a writer, surprising and illuminating, and for me, familiar in the most reassuring way as she loses herself in this compelling story' - Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2023-04-27
Publication Date:
2023-04-27
Publisher:
Bonnier Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1786580594
ISBN13:
9781786580597
Weight:
260 g
Height:
124 cm
Width:
193 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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