A Wild & True Relation

A groundbreaking literary historical novel by the award-winning author A gripping feminist adventure story of smuggling and myth-making, by award-winning author Kim Sherwood ´Remarkable´ HILARY MANTEL ´A vivid, narrative-packed splice of historical fiction´ DAILY MAIL ´Breathlessly swashbuckling´ DAILY TELEGRAPH A Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to the Revenue. Leaving Grace´s cottage in flames, he takes her orphaned daughter Molly on board ship disguised as a boy to join his crew. But Molly, or Orlando as she must call herself, will grow up to outshine all the men of Tom´s company and seek revenge - and a legacy - all of her own. Woven into Molly´s story are the writers - from Celia Fiennes and George Eliot to Daniel Defoe and Charles Dickens - who are transfixed by her myth and who, over three centuries, come together to solve the mystery of her life. With extraordinary verve , Sherwood remakes the eighteenth-century novel and challenges women´s writing and women´s roles throughout history.