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
| ISBN: | 9781786580597 |
| Publication date: | 27th April 2023 |
| Author: | Karolina Ramqvist |
| Publisher: | Manilla an imprint of Bonnier Books UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Feminism and feminist theory Autobiography: writers Gender studies: women and girls Autobiography: general Biography: writers Literary essays Parenting Local and family history, nostalgia Family Drama Family and health |