Learwife

Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history

About the author

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. She was a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford, where she completed her PhD. Born in Australia, she now lives in Cork, Ireland.

Summary

Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history

Additional text

With Learwife, J.R. Thorp has created an entire world out of a void. A stunning voice, hers is one you will remember, and look out for, in the years to come

Product details

• Authors: J R Thorp, J. R. Thorp, J.R. Thorp, J.R. (Jennifer) Thorp
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781838852832
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-283-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 220 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Historical / Medieval, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Fiction: narrative themes, FICTION / Feminist