The Blue Maiden - A dazzling feminist gothic about witches, loss and resilience

A starkly beautiful, hypnotic gothic debut novel on resilience and lineage in the face of a patriarchy both hostile to and reliant on its women

About the author

Anna Noyes' debut collection, Goodnight, Beautiful Women, was a finalist for the Story Prize and the New England Book Award, as well as a New York Times Editors' Choice, Indie Next Pick, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and Amazon Best Book of the Month. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Vice, A Public Space, and Guernica, among others. She has received the Lotos Foundation Prize and the Henfield Prize, as well as residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Lighthouse Works, the James Merrill House, and Aspen Words. She lives in New York, on Fishers Island.

Summary

A starkly beautiful, hypnotic gothic debut novel on resilience and lineage in the face of a patriarchy both hostile to and reliant on its women

Foreword

A starkly beautiful, hypnotic gothic debut novel on resilience and lineage in the face of a patriarchy both hostile to and reliant on its women

Product details

• Authors: Anna Noyes, Noyes Anna
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2024
• EAN: 9781786495815
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-581-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 250 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Historical adventure, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Intended primarily or specifically for women and/or girls