I recently wrote about the 18th-century French painter Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun for Feminist Book Club’s “Reclaiming the Canon” series, so I was excited to see a new historical novel out about one of Vigée Le Brun’s contemporaries, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Susanne Dunlap’s The Portraitist is a novelized account of Labille-Guiard’s career as one of the …
The War Widow by Tara Moss is a historical fiction noir detective story set in Sydney in 1946. The titular character is Billie Walker, a private investigator, who is glamorous, a feminist, and is equally comfortable confronting criminals and dancing at a club. The novel focuses on how Billie tracks the son of European immigrants …
“But does a file count as fact? Or isn’t every rendering a lie?” – Sheila O’Connor This novel by Sheila O’Connor, Evidence of V, tells a story of intergenerational trauma driven by the unknown. Growing up, O’Connor came to understand that her mother has trouble connecting emotionally to her children and with time she begins …
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