Hero

HERO is a captivating literary debut and a love story for our times: a novel that exposes the precious things women give up in order to be loved, and in order to be free. She''s a waitress. He''s a chef. They used to be best friends, but now, they''re in love and living together in a studio apartment. She''s also a selkie, Odysseus, and a cowgirl called Quick Fingers. He''s a really good man. When he asks her to marry him, Hero panics. She is lots of things but one thing she doesn''t want to be is anybody''s wife. Drawing on a rich history of myth and legend, and yet unmistakeably of the moment, HERO is a love story and a story about what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men. How can you be yourself when you are a product of other people''s imaginations? How can you love another person and be free?

About the author

Katie Buckley was born in Fowey, Cornwall, and grew up in Canada and the UK. She studied in Edinburgh, and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at Royal Holloway, where she was a Principal's Masters Scholar, and was a 2021/ 2022 London Library Emerging Writer.

Product details

• Authors: Katie Buckley
• Publisher: Tinder Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781035413089
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3541308-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 214 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fairy and Folk tales, Myths and Legends, Intended primarily or specifically for women and/or girls